I'm so curious, so I need to ask about this!
I've noticed that the writing style in historical chinese dramas look very different from normal hanzi. It looks like ancient chinese, from where modern chinese has developed. What I'm wondering is; is this the same as modern hanzi but with more soft and bent strokes, or is it different characters?
Example from Princess Agents:
update: I found out that it's called "seal script". If anyone else is interested in it it's here on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_script