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C Chiu
The character 虎 as appeared on the poster is written in cursive script (or cursory style). I think cursive script is a modern thing, not exactly related to archaic characters.
Cursive script a modern thing?!?!?!
You've got to be kidding.
They've probably had cursive writing as long as writing itself.
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from Wikipedia article titled "Cursive script (East Asia)"
Cursive script originated in China during the Han dynasty through the Jin period, in two phases. First, an early form of cursive developed as a cursory way to write the popular and not yet mature clerical script. Faster ways to write characters developed through four mechanisms: omitting part of a graph, merging strokes together, replacing portions with abbreviated forms (such as one stroke to replace four dots), or modifying stroke styles. This evolution can best be seen on extant bamboo and wooden slats from the period, on which the use of early cursive and immature clerical forms is intermingled. This early form of cursive script, based on clerical script, is now called zhāngcǎo (章草), and variously also termed ancient cursive, draft cursive or clerical cursive in English, to differentiate it from modern cursive (今草 jīncǎo). Modern cursive evolved from this older cursive in the Wei Kingdom to Jin dynasty with influence from the semi-cursive and standard styles.
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Actually, according to Chinese Cursive Script:An Introduction to Handwriting in Chinese by Fang-yu Wang, there was rudimentary cursive on bamboo slips dating from the Warring States period. That's even before the first imperial dynasty, when Qin united China.
Also while researching this topic I found an interesting book titled Written on Bamboo and Silk:The Beginnings of Chinese Books and Inscriptions, Second Edition found at the University of Chicago Press site.
[press.uchicago.edu]
Kobo.