| Over the thousands of years, the style of Chinese calligraphy has evolved continually. About 213 B.C., under the famous Chin Shih Huang Ti, who perpetrated the 'burning of the books', the Prime Minister Li Szu drew up an official index of characters and unified the written form for the use of scholars. This is chuan-shu and contained more than 3,000 characters. From that time to the present, there are five major styles of calligraphy:
Zhuanshu  (chuan-shu) seal script,
Lishu  (li-shu) clerical script,
Kaishu  (kai-shu) standard script,
Xingshu  (hsing-shu) semi-cursive script, and
Caoshu  (tsao-shu) cursive script.
Xingcao  The combination of Xing and Cao.
(The Japanese calls these tensho, reisho, kaisho, gyosho, and sosho styles.) It is remarkable that after two thousand years, all five styles of writings are still in use today.
A few of my selected works are presented herein. They are very good for your room decoration, art collection for curiosities, and just fun. I hope you enjoy them. |
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seal script 
clerical script 
standard script 
semi-cursive script 
cursive script 