Clerical Style (Lìshū)
Chinese calligraphy clerical script (often simply termed lìshū, "official", "draft", or "scribal" script) is popularly thought to have developed in the Hàn dynasty and to have come directly from seal script. Clerical script characters are often "flat" in appearance, being wider than the preceding seal script and the modern standard script, both of which tend to be taller than they are wide; some versions of clerical are square, and others are wider. The archaic clerical script or ‘proto-clerical’ of the Chinese Warring States period to Qín Dynasty and early Hàn Dynasty can often be difficult to read for a modern East Asian person, but the mature clerical script of the middle to late Hàn dynasty is generally legible. Modern calligraphic works and practical applications in the clerical script tend to use the mature style. The clerical script remains common as a typeface used for decorative purposes (for example, in displays), but other than in artistic calligraphy, adverts and signage, it is not commonly written.
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Chinese Poem Calligraphy of “A Night Mooring By Maple Bridge"
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Chinese Calligraphy of "Wisdom"
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Chinese Calligraphy of "Honesty"
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Chinese Calligraphy of "Sword"
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Chinese Proverb Calligraphy of "A Young Idler, An Old Beggar"
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Chinese Calligraphy for Home and Office "The Joy is Boundless."
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Chinese Calligraphy for Home "There is millions of blessing when a family lives in harmony."
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Chinese Calligraphy of "home"
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Chinese Calligraphy of Insights on Life
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Chinese Ancient Poem Calligraphy
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Chinese Ancient Poem Calligraphy
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Chinese Proverb Calligraphy "I Don't Take it for Granted."
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Chinese Calligraphy of Poem "Real Dragon"
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Chinese Calligraphy of "Wine"
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Chinese Proverb Calligraphy "Where there's honesty, there's a way"
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Chinese Proverb Calligraphy "May all your wishes come true."
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Chinese Tea Calligraphy "Teaism"
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Diligence
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Fair and Softly Go Far in a Day
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God Helps the Diligent
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