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The evolution of character Teach

 

From left to right: 

Shell bone, bronze, big seal, small seal, clerical scripts

 

 Private School teach punish the student who didn't do well.

Pinyin taught: Jiao4

 

Explanation 

 

Shell bone script: The two X's on the upper left are small sticks for counting, and the "子" (A round head and small body) on the lower left is a child. Below on the right is a hand holding a stick. When children learn to count, if they do not do well, they will be punished by their teachers or parents.

 

Bronze script: The two Why use divination instead of stick? Not sure.

 

Big seal script: Much more beautiful than bronze inscriptions. In fact, bronze inscriptions and most Big seals are cast on metal (bronze). Bronze script is earlier than big seal, which are hundreds of years later. Generally, the characters in bronze scripts are few and unsightly. The reason was mainly due to the poor casting technology at that time.

 

Small seal script: similar to big seal script.

 

Clerical script: On the left side is the word "土" plus a stroke, which is the transformation of two X's. Think of "十" as an X, and the remaining "one horizontal + one stroke falling left" is another X.

 

You may ask: Why such a big change? Who did it? People from the Han Dynasty. The people of the Han Dynasty were the boldest in Chinese history, so the Han Dynasty was a great dynasty. Not to mention other aspects, but in terms of Chinese characters, the curves of the seal script are straightened. How bold is that change? Historically known as the "Clerical Revolution", it was a watershed in the development of Chinese characters, from pictographic ancient Chinese characters to horizontal and vertical modern Chinese characters. Think this could happen today? Absolutely impossible. In a calligraphy competition, if you write a typo, you will immediately lose. Sometimes it’s not a typo, but a variant of the word, that is to say, there is such a way of writing, and even great calligraphers have written it, but the judges "Experts" don't know (how did you get it? You know), and think you have a typo, and you are finished. And you don’t know yet, because they don’t tell you the reason for your failure, so you really think that your level is not good enough.