The Early-Appearing Brushstroke"Cantou"蠶頭(Silkworm Head)and the Late-Disappearing Brushstroke"Yanwei"雁尾(Swallow Tail):The Formation of the Standard Script from the Perspective of the Chenzhou Jin Slips as Well as Other Bamboo and Wooden Slips Excavated in
The Early-Appearing Brushstroke"Cantou"蠶頭(Silkworm Head)and the Late-Disappearing Brushstroke"Yanwei"雁尾(Swallow Tail):The Formation of the Standard Script from the Perspective of the Chenzhou Jin Slips as Well as Other Bamboo and Wooden Slips Excavated in
The gradual abandonment of the clerical script and its transition into the semi-cursive script was a process that continued from the latter part of the Western Han up to the mid-late Eastern Han.The further standardization and transformation of the semi-cursive script into the standard script was more or less completed in the period between the mid-Eastern Han dynasty and the Wei-Jin period.The Chenzhou Jin slips are situated in the later period of the transformation from the clerical script to the standard script.By the time of these slips,the so-called"silkworm head"brushstrokes(cantou)typical of the clerical script had long since disappeared but some specimens still preserved another trait of the clerical script,the so-called"swallow tail"brushstroke(yanwei).This is not a result of the transformation of the script per se but is a product of the process of change in artistic style,which occurred after calligraphy became an artform.From the perspective of the script of the Chenzhou slips,the appearance some fifty years later during the Eastern Jin of calligraphic works such as the Orchid Pavilion Preface follows as a matter of course.
关键词
蠶頭/雁尾/解散隸書/楷書/古質而今妍
Key words
cantou蠶頭(silkworm head-brushstroke)/yanwei雁尾(swallow tail-brushstroke)/abandonment of the clerical script/standard script/ancient plainness and modern refinement
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