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Regular script, also known as official script, or original script, began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Its characteristics are: square font and straight strokes, which can be used as a model, so it is named "regular script". There are many famous regular script writers, such as Ou Ti (Ou Yangxun), Yu Ti (Yu Shinan), Yan Ti (Yan Zhenqing), Liu Ti (Liu Gongquan) and Zhao Ti (f incarnation).
Classical explanation
Song Xuanhe's Book Score "Wang Cizhong was the first person who used official script as regular script in the early Han Dynasty", and thought that regular script evolved from official script. It is said: "On the tomb of Confucius, a regular script tree planted by Zi Gongzhi has straight and unyielding branches." Regular script strokes are simple and refreshing, such as the branches of regular script trees.
There are a few official scripts left in the early regular script, which are slightly wider in structure, with long horizontal paintings and short vertical paintings, which can be seen in the Wei and Jin Dynasties handed down from generation to generation, such as Zhong You's Declaration Form, Collection of Records Table, Wang Xizhi's On Music and Yi and Huang Tingjing. As Weng Fanggang said: "Change the wave painting of official script, and take it, and still keep the vertical of official script."
After the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the north and the south were divided, and calligraphy was also divided into two factions. The style of calligraphy in the North School is Han Li's legacy, Gu Zhuo, but its style is simple and rigorous, and it is longer than the list of books, which is called Weibei. Southern calligraphy is more sparse and beautiful than letters. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, because of regional differences, personal habits and book styles were very different. The books in the North are strong and the books in the South are rich, each of which is wonderful and inseparable, while Bao and Kang Youwei highly admire the books of the two dynasties, especially the epitaphs of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Kang Zeng cited ten beautiful women to emphasize the advantages of Weibei.
Regular script in the Tang Dynasty, like the prosperity of the national situation in the Tang Dynasty, is really unprecedented, with mature calligraphy style and numerous calligraphers. In terms of regular script, Yu Shinan, Ou Yangxun and Chu Suiliang in the early Tang Dynasty, Yan Zhenqing in the middle Tang Dynasty and Liu Gongquan in the late Tang Dynasty, all of their regular script works were valued by later generations and regarded as models of calligraphy.
There is an ancient saying in learning calligraphy: "Learning calligraphy must start with the method of writing, and writing must start with big characters. Chinese characters are based on Yan, Chinese characters are based on Europe, Chinese characters are ripe, and then they are gathered into small characters, which is the law. " However, the results of many years of experimental research show that beginners are not suitable to learn too big words first, and the middle letters are more suitable.