Clerical Script 隶书

​隶书相传起源于秦朝，由程邈整理而成，在东汉时期达到顶峰。隶变是汉字由小篆演变为隶书的过程，大约在秦汉之间，和象形文字产生了很大的不同，并具有了后来楷书中的一些特点，是汉字发展的转折点，对后世的汉字有很大的影响。

 

The clerical script is a style of Chinese writing which evolved from the late Warring States period (475 - 221 BC) to the Qin Dynasty (221 - 206 BC), matured and became dominant in the Han Dynasty (202 BC - 9 AD, 25 - 220 AD), and remained in largely active use through the Six Dynasties periods (220-589). In its development, it departed significantly from the earlier scripts in terms of graphic structures (a process named 'clerical change'), and was characterized by its rectilinearity, a trait shared with the later regular script.

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