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When did cursive script come from? When did cursive script come from?

Cursive script refers to cursive writing style, which originated in the early Han Dynasty. Cursive script evolved from official script for the convenience of writing. It is divided into Zhangcao, Jincao and Kuangcao, and Jincao is divided into big grass and small grass, showing the beauty of art in the madness.

Cursive writing is divided into broad and narrow senses. One is that in the ancient times when characters were not unified, there was no unified and standardized cursive script. The scrawled characters that appeared at that time belonged to the broad sense of cursive script. The second type is after the unified writing, in emergency situations, when drafting documents and recording other people's conversations, the writing is fast, the strokes are connected and omitted, and the letters are irregular and scrawled. It is difficult to use for communication, and even the person writing it is difficult to recognize after a long time. This kind of sloppy writing belongs to the broad sense of cursive writing.