In 2008, there was a large batch of bamboo slips in the Middle and Late Warring States Period collected by Tsinghua University, and most of these bamboo books are copies of important classics such as "Classics" and "History". The characters are clear, neat, beautiful, graceful and elegant, and most of them have the characteristics of typical Chu script. As far as the history of calligraphy is concerned, it is different from the inscriptions on bells, tripods, and stone steles. It is a real written ink, which can more faithfully reflect the real appearance of writing at that time. It is an important material for the study of classic ink calligraphy in theWarring States period.
Generally speaking, the calligraphy features of "Tsinghua Bamboo Slips" are good at using both middle and side strokes, and most of them are proficient in side strokes; the line is thick, thin, dull, and sharp; the configuration is long, flat, large, and small;the construction is wide and tight, and most of them are tight and rigorous; the kerning of the characters is mostly lined between about one character.
The text of "Tsinghua Bamboo Slips" in the middle and late Warring States Period is generally referred to one of the ancient texts of the Six Kingdoms by the academic circle. Its characters are inherited from the Yin, Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties, and most of them are typical Chu characters, and have many common phenomena such as complexity, simplification, saving strokes, saving shapes, changing characters, isomerism and combining characters. The calligraphic styles of each of the texts have their own characteristics, and the scribes at most transcribed as many as 14 articles, and at least 1 article. A total of 9 articles were transcribed by 1 writer each. In volumes 1 to 6, there were a total of 13 scribes. Among them, there are two articles "Liangchen" and "Zhuci" that clearly belong to the characters of the Sanjin system; especially the "Baoxun" article, some of which can be compared with the later Three-Type Stone Classics, and some characters have the taste of the bell, tripod, gold and stone of orthodox mood, and some characters have the characteristics of the four families of Qi, Jin, Chu and Qin, and are closer to the Qin family.
The five lines of writing in the Warring States Period were all inherited from the ancient Chinese writings of the Yin and Zhou dynasties. Although they each developed their own unique writing characteristics due to the division of rule and domain, these five lines of writing are all derived from the same source. Therefore, the characters of each faction are not completely different, but have similarities and differences between each other, and also have similarities and differences with the ancient Yin and Zhou Dynasties, the source of inheritance. There are more than 60 articles, and most of them are typical The Tsinghua Bamboo Slips of Chu, which is characterized by Chu script, has this epicene."Tsinghua Bamboo Slips" are with more than 60 articles, well-organized and exquisite characters, and most of them have the characteristics of typical Chu characters. All of them have this commonality