In fact, the basis of calligraphy is brushwork. There are seal script brushwork, cursive brushwork, Tang Kai brushwork, Jin Kai brushwork, Weibei brushwork and Weibei brushwork. Only when you master the brushwork of a calligraphy style and skillfully use its word formation rules will you know that you have the foundation of this calligraphy style.
Just because you practice regular script well doesn't mean that you have the foundation to write other regular scripts, so this statement is untenable.
In the eyes of many people, regular script is limited to Tang Kai. In fact, regular script has surpassed Tang Kai.
Regular script can basically be divided into three directions:
Kincaid, Wei Bei and Tang Kai Kincaid are different in brushwork, evolution and style.
First of all, the emergence of regular script originated from the rapid writing of official script, which changed the wave plate in the stroke into a straight pen and the round pen at the turning point into a Fang Bi.
The legend of regular script in Jin Dynasty originated from Wang Cizhong, but Wang Cizhong did not leave his works handed down from generation to generation, but there are historical materials to be found. Improved by Zhong You, Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi, it became a model of regular script in Jin Dynasty. His brushwork is mainly "straight down".
This brushwork was handed down by Wang Xizhi's descendant, the wise and brave monk, and it was also the main brushwork of Yu Shinan in the early Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Yu Shinan's regular script in Tang Dynasty is a regular script with Tang Dynasty meaning made by Jin people. As far as inheritance and aesthetic taste are concerned, this brushwork belongs to the brushwork of Zhong You and Erwang, and we also call it Kincaid. Jin Kai is mainly composed of small letters and medium small letters, such as Erbiao by Zhong You, Monument to the Daughter Cao E by Wang Xizhi, Huang Tingjing, Painting Praise and Monument to the Confucius Temple by Yu Yongxing.
Tang Kai and Tang Kai, on the other hand, combined the regular script style of Erwangyilu in Jin Dynasty and the writing style and structural characteristics of northern inscriptions, forming the Tang Kai paradigm with "square folding and scattered" as the main form. The main representative is Ou Yangxun, whose inscription on Jiuchenggong Liquan is rigorous and orderly, and its structure is strange and dangerous, which is the highest in Tang Kai. Therefore, it also laid a peak for Tang Kai, which is beyond the reach of future generations.
At the same time, Chu Suiliang and others behind him in Xue Ji mainly used this brushwork, thus laying the foundation for regular script in the middle Tang Dynasty. Here, I would like to add that Yan Zhenqing's regular script is mainly written by Jin people, and it can be well integrated with Datang Meteorological Institute, so it is a way to deepen the Jin and Tang Dynasties.
Weibei, Weibei, majestic and rough, is in sharp contrast with the elegant style of Nantie. His representative works include Erguan Monument, Congbaozi Monument and Conglongyan Monument, which are simple and pure and set an example for future generations.
Wei Bei's brushwork has the characteristics of both Kai method and Li method, as well as seal pen and square folding pen. For example, "Zhang Qianbei" and "Xianyu Huang Bei" are two representatives connecting the North and the South.
For example, the dragon-faced stone tablet that we can call "Li Kai" is thick, ancient and full of breath, which limits the interest of stone carving.
In addition, the tablet of Zhang Raptors, which Kang Nanhai admired most, basically got rid of the official intention and developed with vigorous and powerful brushwork. Gu Zhuo is in good health, ranking first in history, and Ou Yangxun has learned a lot from her regular script.
The best works of the North Monument, such as the Zheng Wengong Monument, have a smooth structure, and the pen, wave and disk are parallel to Fang Bi, which is also the best transition from official script to regular script.
Generally speaking, regular script has been changing since its birth. It is a transformation from Wang Ci-zhong to Zhong You, from Zhong You to Wang Xizhi and Wang Xizhi's father and son, and another transformation in the Tang Dynasty.
Starting from the four schools in the early Tang Dynasty, Wang Xizhi and Li Beihai's Longzang Temple Monument formed a regular script in the early Tang Dynasty.
Xuanzong was very fat in the middle Tang Dynasty, so Xu Hao and Yan Zhenqing stepped onto the historical stage.
After Yuanhe, the vigorous style represented by Liu Gongquan replaced Yan's plump appearance, which was another change.
Recognizing the change of regular script and understanding the process of brushwork change, perhaps no one will say that regular script is the basis of calligraphy.