| 释义 |
‖ ta chuan|da dʒwan|
Also ta tchuen.
[Chinese dàzhuàn, f. dà big + zhuàn seal character.]
In Chinese calligraphy, an early form of script used during the Chou dynasty (c 1028–221 b.c.); ‘large seal script’.
1894T. de Lacouperie Beginnings of Writing in Central & Eastern Asia 194 The Chinese writing exhibits in its history eight successive styles, viz:..(2) Ta tchuen of 820 b.c. 1910Encycl. Brit. VI. 220/1 Authentic specimens of the..ta chuan, older or Greater Seal writing, are exceedingly rare. 1958W. Willetts Chinese Art II. vii. 566 Those [characters] then substituted..were what Han scholars called ta chüan or ‘Great Curly’, and sometimes chou wên after the name of the supposed Annalist. 1966C. Ch'en Chinese Calligraphers & their Art iii. 24 Scholars of a later day have chosen to group all the different scripts before Li Ssŭ's time as the ta chuan. 1973T. C. Lai Chinese Calligraphy 12 (caption) A ceremonial basin ta chuan script. |