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Odd chinese writing style in dramas (Why?)

Isidora

I'm so curious, so I need to ask about this!

I've noticed that the writing style in historical chinese dramas look very different from normal hanzi. It looks like ancient chinese, from where modern chinese has developed. What I'm wondering is; is this the same as modern hanzi but with more soft and bent strokes, or is it different characters?

Example from Princess Agents:

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Isidora

update: I found out that it's called "seal script". If anyone else is interested in it it's here on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script

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Mel Mel

Its actually different. I'll throw in some pictures i found on Google. And if i did not remember wrongly, there are a few more types of writing between Bone and Clerical, depending on the dynasty. There is a long history on this.

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Ackery

I think that the language they use today originates from the 'ancient Chinese' as you called them or seal scripts. The meaning of each word is portrayed in the writing. It was an easy way to 'write what they see'

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MAYOII

most of them do resemble hanzi in a way, though subtly since they were based on pictography

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weiy

The character in your picture called Seal script (篆书),  it  is amostly the same as modern hanzi but with more soft and bent strokes, not different characters.

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