With the discovery of a large number of bamboo and wooden slips in the late Qing and early Republican periods,and with the increasing debate over the reform of Chinese characters,the zhang cursive script has again come to people's attention.Calligraphic creation in the zhang cursive and research into this script have emerged accordingly.Zhuo Dingmou advocated the promotion of the zhang cursive,which he considered to be simpler and more practical than other scripts.His A Study of the Zhang Cursive Script(Zhangcao Kao)was based on Chinese traditional philology(xiaoxue).In his book,he recorded a wide range of materials on the zhang cursive and collected and arranged the sources regarding its denomination,structural shape,origin and development,flowering and decline,as well as concise biographies of masters and collectors of the script.Zhuo Dingmou explored the rules of transformation of the zhang cursive and reshaped the history of its development.Zhuo's construction of the theoretical system of the zhang script has exerted a great influence on the development and the study of this script in contemporary China.
关键词
《章草考》/章草理論/章草史
Key words
A Study of the Zhang Cursive Script/theoretical system of the zhang cursive script/the history of zhang cursive script