漢字의 발전과정에서 살펴 본 秦隸의 來源考

A Study on the Emergence of QinLi(秦隷)

The characters on the Qin bamboo slips in Shuihudi(睡虎地秦簡) are all hand-copied ink, and the font is QinLi(秦隷). It systematically and comprehensively reflects the evolution and development of characters from the end of the Warring States period to the beginning of the Qin Dynasty. Regarding the birth of QinLi(秦隷), there have been many discussions in the predecessors, and later there was a saying that Cheng Miao(程邈), a man of Qin, created the official script. These are just saying that there was an official script in the Qin Dynasty, but what the image of the QinLi(秦隷) was, so that it was not very clear though For a long period of time, people have mistaken the tight script engraved on the “Qinzhao Edition(秦詔版)” as “QinLi(秦隷)”. The unearthed Qin bamboo slips in Shuihudi, so these problems have been resolved. Because of the development of law concerning the evolution of characters, a new type of facet has been conceived among the old kind for a prolonged time. According to the literature, QinLi came into being after Qin had unified China or have burned books. Therefor it was Xiaozhuan(小篆) to be first, and then QinLi evolved from Xiaozhuan. Then the gestation period of QinLi is not lasting and short, but on the basis of the characteristics of the characters of the Qin bamboo slips in Shuihudi it is believed that QinLi would have been formed long time ago when Qin Shihuang unified China. And its emergence time could be postponed to the late Warring States period for the latest. The emergence of QinLi has had an extremely important position in the history of Chinese characters development and calligraphy. Since it has had inherits from the very upper top and the HanLi(漢隷) was from later time which has played a great part in connecting the past and the future. In the process of the unification of the Qin Dynasty and the Six States many countries used it in seperate way. The fonts of Chinese characters have undergone drastic changes, but there is a common trend, which is to strive for simplification, so there have been a large number of variant characters and simplified drafts that destroy the structure of seal characters. It is the biggest change in the history of the development of Chinese characters, from the pictographic characters with circles and lines as the structure to the abstract characters with dots and lines as symbols and square folds as the structure. The disintegration of the structure of Zhuanshu(篆書) created a new symbolic and standardized character. Because of its broad mass base and practical value of simple and convenient writing, it soon replaced Xiaozhuan and became the main font in the early days. Since then, although the font of Chinese characters has remained There is an evolution from official script to regular script, but the structure of the characters has basically not changed much.