Flat brush script
# Flat brush script

Chinese characters :

Scripts

Precursors

Oracle-bone

Bronze

Seal (bird-wormlargesmall)

Clerical

Regular

Semi-cursive

Cursive

Flat brush

Simplified characters

Type styles

Imitation Song

Ming

Sans-serif :

Properties

Strokes (order)

Radicals

Classification :

Variants

Character-form standards

Kangxi Dictionary

Jiu zixing/Inherited form

Xin zixing

General Standard Chinese Characters (PRC)

Graphemes of commonly-used Chinese characters (Hong Kong)

Standard typefaces for Chinese characters (ROC Taiwan)

Grapheme-usage standards

Graphemic variants

General Standard Characters (PRC)

Jōyō kanji (Japan)

Other standards

Standardized Forms of Words with Variant Forms (PRC)

Previous standards

Commonly-used Characters (PRC)

Tōyō kanji (Japan) :

Reforms

Chinese

Clerical reforms

Traditional characters

Simplified characters (first roundsecond round)

Debate

Japanese

Old (Kyūjitai)

New (Shinjitai)

Ryakuji

Sino-Japanese

Differences between Shinjitai and Simplified characters

Korean

Yakja

Singaporean

Table of Simplified Characters :

Homographs

Literary and colloquial readings :

Use in particular scripts

Written Chinese

Zetian characters

Slavonic transcription

Hokkien

Nüshu

Kanji (Kokuji)

Kana (Man'yōgana)

Idu

Hanja (Gukja)

Chữ Nôm

Sawndip :

vte :

The Flat Brush script (simplified Chinese: 漆书; traditional Chinese: 漆書 pinyin: qī shū) is a writing style in Chinese calligraphy that was created by Jin Nong (simplified Chinese: 金农; traditional Chinese: 金農) during the Qing dynasty. The writing style is a mix of the clerical script of the Han dynasty and the regular script of the Wei dynasty; these two writing styles make the Flat Brush script a unique writing style in Chinese calligraphy. The technique used to write in the flat brush script is very different from the other writing styles. It has to be written using a flat brush and not the regular East Asian writing brush.

## About the creator

Jin Nong was highly knowledgeable on Chinese calligraphy. His calligraphy was the best among the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. Especially his clerical script and semi-cursive script, his works have unique and ingenious aesthetics. After the age of 50, he began to deviate from the norm and used his calligraphic knowledge to create the Flat Brush script. Jin Nong used a special ink that he made by himself, and he also used a special brush for the Flat Brush script.

