Research On The Mirror Inscription Of Han Dynasty

Han Dynasty is the important period on the script development history of Chinese characters. In the key stage, ancient characters carry out the transition to the modern characters and the seal character develop to the official script to the regular script. The mirror inscription appeared Han Dynasty fully reflect characteristic of Chinese characters in this period. The mirror inscription of Han Dynasty mainly display own rich and varied script characteristic: having seal character, Mou-zhuan script, seal and official script, cursive script, official script, simplified Chinese character and artistic calligraphy, etc. and appearing a large number of phenomena of interchange of Chinese characters in the Dong-Han Dynasty. These rich and varied mirror inscription, on one hand, show the deep influence in the course of script change and reflect the develop course from the seal character to the official script, on the other hand, they fully display ornament beauty of pursuing sedulously.By static and objectively describing structure and analyzing script of all periods, This paper try to find out different characteristics of the mirror inscription, including two respects of style of calligraphy and structure characteristic, in different periods; to make further research on various kinds of forming reason of script so as to find out their inherent regularity.