On Distinction between Huo Style in Word and Expression and Zhou Calligraphic One

Based on inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells, this paper has made a contrast among Huo interpretation style in Word and Expression, Zhou and Xiaozhuan calligraphic styles according to the sequence of the book and made a distinction between them. The author has found the different features between Huo and Zhou Styles: i. in form, both Huo and Xiaozhuan styles are slim and symmetric and are more tidy, some of them are the direct or indirect rewriting or omission of Zhou Style, and hence become much simpler and easier, whereas Zhou style seems a little round and stout; ii. in formation, both Xiaozhuan and Huo styles have changed some Zhou words which are ideographic and pictographic into phonograms. Through the contrast between the two, we can see the clear evolutionary trace of Chinese characters.