Calligraphy New Interpretation

Author: Sun Qingchang
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features:
1. Main Text Pages (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Explanation:
(1) Regular Script Head. The handwritten regular script traditional characters serve as the source characters for transforming into cursive script. Below the head, "from" a certain character indicates the transformation into cursive.
(2) Regular Script Strokes. The decomposition of regular script strokes. The decomposed strokes are arranged in the order of cursive script strokes, from top to bottom.
(3) Cursive Script Strokes. The form of regular script strokes transforming into cursive script strokes. The order corresponds to the regular script stroke order.
(4) Cursive Script Characters. The cursive characters inside the circles are arranged in the order of progressive stroke writing of the original character. The numbers inside the circles indicate the starting stroke. The numbers in parentheses below the circles refer to the serial numbers for the same regular script head transforming into multiple forms of cursive script.
(5) Transformation Explanation. Main annotations explaining the transformation from regular script to cursive script.
2. This book selects 882 regular script heads and transforms them into 4,559 cursive script characters in various forms.
3. Non-independent characters are treated as independent transformation examples to reduce repetitive character explanations due to their high frequency of occurrence.
4. The "combined characters" noted in this book refer to cursive script characters that cannot be used independently.
5. The main text of this book is arranged by the number of strokes in regular script, from few to many. Representative traditional characters with strokes ranging from three to thirty are selected.