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Wild Cursive Script Art and Zhang Xu 1. Introduction Cursive script is a kind of traditional Chinese script produced for convenience of writing. Cursive script originated since the beginning of the Han Dynasty. (Barnhart, 1972) The characteristics are: having the basic appearance of characters, breaking the regularity of Clerical script, bold and unrestrained. Cursive script could be divided into three main types which are Zhang Cursive, Jin Cursive and Wild Cursive. (Li, 2002) Strokes of Zhang Cursive have some certain rules, the Songjiang version of Literature in a Hurry written by Wu Huang