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{{Short description|Chinese character forms c. 1050–400 BCE}}
{{Infobox writing system
|name = Large seal script
|type = [[Logographic]]
|languages = [[Old Chinese]]
|time = [[Eastern Zhou]]
|fam1 = ([[Proto-writing]])
|fam2 = [[Oracle bone script]]
|fam3 = [[Bronze script]]
|children = [[Small seal script]]
|sample = Song ding inscription.jpg
|imagesize = 180px
}}
{{Infobox Chinese
|c=大篆
|p=dàzhuàn
|tp=dà-jhuàn
|w={{tonesup|ta4-chuan4}}
|mi={{IPAc-cmn|d|a|4|.|zh|uan|4}}
|bpmf={{bpmfsp|ㄉㄚˋ|ㄓㄨㄢˋ}}
}}
The term '''large seal script''' traditionally refers to [[written Chinese]] dating from before the [[Qin dynasty]]—now used either narrowly to the writing of the Western and early [[Eastern Zhou]] dynasty ({{circa|1046}}{{snd}}403 BCE), or more broadly to also include the [[oracle bone script]] ({{circa|1250|1000 BCE}}). The term deliberately contrasts the [[small seal script]], the official script standardized throughout China during the Qin dynasty, often called merely 'seal script'. Due to the term's lack of precision, scholars often prefer more specific references regarding the provenance of whichever written samples are being discussed.

During the [[Han dynasty]] (202 BCE{{snd}}220 CE), when [[clerical script]] became the popular form of writing, the small seal script was relegated to limited, formal usage, such as on signet [[Seal (emblem)|seal]]s and for the titles of [[stelae]] (inscribed stone memorial tablets which were popular at the time), and as such the earlier Qin dynasty script began to be referred to as 'seal script'. At that time, there remained knowledge of even older, often more complex glyphs dating to the middle-to-late Zhou dynasty, directly ancestral to the Qin forms—which resembled the Qin forms in their rounded style, as opposed to the rectilinear clerical script style prominent during the Han.<ref>[http://www.bsm-whu.org/zxcl 中國古代簡帛字形、辭例數據庫]</ref> As a result, the 'large' and 'small' terms emerged to refer to the respective scripts. The Han-era ''[[Shuowen Jiezi]]'' dictionary ({{circa|100 CE}}) credits sometimes traditionally identified with a group of characters from the ''[[Shizhoupian]]'' ({{circa|800 BCE}}), preserved by their inclusion within the ''Shuowen Jiezi''. [[Xu Shen]], the latter text's author, included the variants differing from the structures of small seal script, and labelled the examples as {{tlit|zh|zhòuwén}} ({{lang|zh|籀文}}), referring to the name of the original book, not the name of the dynasty or of a script

==See also==
* [[Seal script]]
* [[Small seal script]]

== References ==
=== Citations ===
{{Reflist}}

=== Works cited ===
* {{Citation |last=Chen |first=Zhaorong |publisher=Academia Sinica |year=2003 |isbn=957-6-71995-X |series=Institute of History and Philology Monograph |language=zh |script-title=zh:秦系文字研究﹕从漢字史的角度考察 |trans-title=Research on the Qín Lineage of Writing: An Examination from the Perspective of the History of Chinese Writing |author-mask=Chen Zhaorong (陳昭容)}}
* {{Citation |last=Qiu |first=Xigui |author-link=Qiu Xigui |title=Chinese Writing |publisher=Society for the Study of Early China and The Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-557-29071-7 |location=Berkeley |translator-last=Mattos |translator-first=Gilbert L. |author-mask=Qiu Xigui (裘锡圭) |orig-date=1988 |translator-last2=Norman |translator-first2=Jerry}}

{{Chinese Calligraphies}}
{{list of writing systems}}

[[Category:East Asian calligraphy]]
[[Category:Chinese script style]]

Large seal script - Revision history

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