Five-Body Calligraphy Dictionary

Author: The Editorial Team of the Five-Style Calligraphy Dictionary
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Publishing Date: 2005-08-02
Features:
One book collects all characters, with the first text comprising 4,778 characters, and the total number of characters in all styles amounts to nearly 47,000.
Two books focus on the commonly used regular script, running script, and cursive script, all of which are traced based on their original forms.
Three books feature seal script and clerical script as supplementary styles, with seal script taken from Xu Xuan's Shuowen Jiezi and clerical script from Gu Nan yuan's Lì Biàn.
In the four books, the regular script, running script, and cursive script are all annotated with their sources, which not only helps readers identify various calligraphic styles passed down through generations but also allows them to practice the calligraphy of different masters.