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The small seal script is an archaic script style of written Chinese.It developed within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–256 BC), and was then promulgated across China in order to replace script varieties used in other ancient Chinese states following Qin's wars of unification and establishment of the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC) under Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of ...
The term seal script may refer to several distinct varieties, including the large seal script and the small seal script.Without qualification, seal script usually refers to the small seal script—that is, the lineage which evolved within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–221 BC), which was later standardized under Qin Shi Huang (r.
This term dates back to the Han dynasty, [15] when (small) seal script and clerical script were both in use. It thus became necessary to distinguish between the two, as well as any earlier script forms which were still accessible in the form of books and inscriptions, so the terms " large seal " (大篆 dàzhuàn ) and "small seal" (小篆 ...
The clerical script (隶书; 隸書 lìshū)—sometimes called official, draft, or scribal script—is popularly thought to have developed in the Han dynasty and to have come directly from seal script, but recent archaeological discoveries and scholarship indicate that it instead developed from a roughly executed and rectilinear popular or "vulgar" variant of the seal script as well as seal ...
This is an English Wiki, and the names 'seal script' and 'small seal script' are the dominant English forms for xiaozhuan. Furthermore, what little info there is on the page is bad; small seal script was not invented by Li Si; I've added clarifications and reference on the seal script and other relevant pages.
That is the correct name. Seal script is not identical to "Small Seal Script" right off the bat as the first sentence proposed. This should be changed. Benjwong 20:54, 13 April 2007 (UTC) It's all set. Now seal script is the main page, small seal script goes to small, and large go to large. Benjwong 01:09, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
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The Shuowen Jiezi entry for 子 'child', showing the small seal script (top right), ancient script (top left), and Zhou script (bottom left) forms. [1] A page from a commentary on the work by Wang Guowei. The Shizhoupian (Chinese: 史籀篇) is the first known Chinese dictionary, and was written in the ancient large seal script.