At the same time, however, another type of calligraphic writing came into appearance. This was the first of the "cursive" style of calligraphy, which was a free-flowing, less structured form of character script. This progression marked a radical departure from those first early pictographs which graced the oracle bones.
中國有「書畫同源」之說，從線條藝術的觀點來看，書法在本質上，具有比繪畫更形而上、更純粹的一面。