On The Official Script Of Sui And Tang Dynasties

Looking at the history of Chinese characters and calligraphy,The Eastern Han Dynasty was the golden age of the clerical script,which lasted until the appearance of the regular script at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.During the Wei and Jin Dynasties,regular script began to gradually replace official script in daily writing,but official script still maintained its own advantages in the field of "inscription and stone writing".In the northern and Southern Dynasties,regular script was widely used in stele inscriptions.Although official script tenaciously showed its existence,it has become a tributary outside the mainstream script and can not compete with the emerging regular script and running script.From the development history of Lishu,Lishu in Sui Dynasty is between the two peaks of Han Lishu and Tang Lishu.Lishu calligraphy in Sui Dynasty inherited from the northern and Southern Dynasties,showing the characteristics of diversity and complexity in the origin of calligraphy,and directly affected the development of Lishu in the early Tang Dynasty.After the Tang Dynasty,the art of calligraphy was unprecedentedly prosperous.Not only regular script,line script and cursive script had their own advantages,but also seal script and official script were revived.In particular,during the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years,because Emperor Xuanzong of Tang valued the clerical script and practiced it physically,the court and the public tended to follow it,and the clerical script thus gained the opportunity to be revived.The so-called"renaissance",of course,does not mean that the official script regained the status of the supreme body,its significance is only in the art of calligraphy,only in the field of"inscription stone writing".During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong,there were many monuments and tablets,and the clerical script was half of them,and a change in the strict Han method,forming a rich and rounded new style of Tang script.