Clerical script

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      1. <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">clerical script</skos:prefLabel>

      2. <skos:prefLabel xml:lang="zh">隸書</skos:prefLabel>

      3. <skos:altLabel xml:lang="zh">lì shū</skos:altLabel>

      4. <skos:altLabel xml:lang="zh">li shu</skos:altLabel>

      5. <skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">lishu</skos:altLabel>

      6. <skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">li-shu</skos:altLabel>

      7. <skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">chancery script</skos:altLabel>

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      9. <skos:note xml:lang="en">An ancient Chinese calligraphic script developed during the Han dynasty (206 BC to 200 CE) and widely adopted for official and educational purposes. It developed from seal script (zhuanshu), originating in the brush writing of the later Zhou and Qin dynasties. It first appeared in the Qin Dynasty (221-226 BCE), and came into its mature form during the Eastern Han dynasty (late 3rd century BCE). Though somewhat square and angular, with strong emphasis on the horizontal strokes, the lishu is a truly calligraphic script type, making full use of the flexible brush to modulate the thickness of the line. Many Han examples survive, written with a brush on bamboo slips or carved in stone. Characters were approximately uniform in size and evenly spaced within a composition, but the construction of characters and individual strokes varied greatly. The main characteristics of the clerical script are its angular strokes, which replaced the rounded lines in the seal script, and its simplified character structures, which defied the six principles of Chinese characters. Clerical script laid the foundation for the development of later scripts, including the standard or regular script, the running or semi-cursive script, and the cursive script. A prisoner Cheng Miao is said to have created this script, and the new style of writing became popular among prison workers for clerical documents and transcriptions. At the end of the Han dynasty the lishu developed into the more supple and fluent kaishu.</skos:note>

      10. <skos:note xml:lang="zh">由篆書演進的書體,始於秦而成熟於東漢,於文書、抄寫等隸役中普遍使用,傳由犯罪的徒隸程邈所造而得名。書體特色是將篆書的圓轉筆畫改為方折,簡化字形及筆畫,突破六書造字原則,是楷、行、草書體的基礎。</skos:note>

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