Abstract:
The layout of the composition is one of the important attributes of Chinese characters, which is mainly affected by the following five factors: the positional relationship of a real thing or a scene component, the way of vision image formation, mechanism of prototype control, convenient writing requirements and the structural balance principle. The main factors which dominated the glyphs of the ancient Chinese characters are the shape of things as the basis of Chinese Characters and the mechanism of vision image formation. In the stage of Lishu(隶书) and Kaishu(楷书) the configuration of Chinese characters was mainly dominated by the prototype constraints, convenient writing and the structural balance principle.
