The correct order of the evolution of Chinese characters is oracle bone script, golden script, seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script and running script.
Over the thousands of years that Chinese characters have been in use, people have continued to improve their writing styles in order to record language and communicate with each other. From the oracle bone script to the current regular script, the evolution of the font has gone through five main stages: oracle bone script, jinwen (gold script), seal script (mainly referring to the small seal script), liushu (official script), and kaiwen (regular script).
About the Evolution of Chinese Characters
1. Chinese characters are one of the oldest scripts in the world, with a history of at least 4,000 years, and the earliest recognizable system of mature Chinese characters in existence is the oracle-bone script of the Shang Dynasty. The biggest change in the script was from the Small Seal Script to the Official Script, which was also the biggest change in the font, and was the turning point of the ancient script into the modern script.
2. The correct chronological order of the evolution of Chinese characters is pottery script, oracle bone script, jinwen, small seal script, official script, regular script, and simplified character regular script. Chinese characters, also known as 中文, are the recording symbols of the Chinese language; unlike alphabetic scripts such as English, Hindi, and Russian, which are phonetic, Chinese characters are typically phonetic; and unlike pinyin words, which have monophthongs or polyphthongs for meaning, Chinese characters are generally monophthongs for meaning.
Summary: Chinese characters, from oracle bone inscriptions, gold inscriptions, small seal scripts, clerical scripts to the Wei and Tang scripts, reflect the characteristics of each historical period, and have been handed down in an orderly manner, which is unique in the history of the world's writing. This is the unique charm of Chinese characters, or Chinese calligraphy!