Huang Daozhou is regarded as the most creative calligrapher in Ming Dynasty. His regular script is square and almost flat, with vigorous brushwork and simple style, which is very similar to Zhong You's regular script in Gu Zhuo. The difference is that Zhongshu is vigorous and powerful in Gu Zhuo, while Huangshu is clear and vigorous, which is obviously influenced by Wang Xizhi's Kaifa.
Huang Daozhou's regular script mainly studies Zhong You, which is more delicate and elegant than Gu Zhuo in Zhong You. Huang Daozhou is good at regular script, running script, cursive script and other styles, and also works as an official script. His regular script "Xiao Jing Juan Zhang Pu Epitaph" is square and nearly flat in font, vigorous in brushwork and simple in Gu Zhuo, which is very similar to Zhong You's regular script. Zhong Shu is vigorous and powerful in Gu Zhuo, while Huang Shu is clear and healthy, which shows that he was influenced by Wang Xizhi's Kaifa.
His cursive script "Axis of Five-character Ancient Poems" is roughly similar to his regular script style, with a turning point in brushwork, colorful words and simple style, which is similar to that of Zhong You. His official script is characterized by simplicity and elegance, not as elegant as Gu Zhuo's regular script. From Huang Daozhou's calligraphy theory, we can see that he paid more attention to the calligraphy of Wei and Jin Dynasties, especially the simple calligraphy of Zhong You and Suo Jing, but paid less attention to his contemporary calligraphy, such as Dong Qichang's.
Historical science popularization of regular script
Origin and formation period of regular script: 1973 In the remains of silk script unearthed from No.3 Han Tomb in Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan Province, it can be found that some characters in the Western Han Dynasty, such as "Wen" and "Xin", already have regular script strokes. In recent years, a large number of Eastern Han bamboo slips have also been unearthed, and this kind of regular script strokes is also very common. The inscription "Ode to Zhang Jun's Table in the Ancient Valley City of Han Dynasty" written by Zhong Ping in the third year of the Eastern Han Dynasty pointed out in Yang Shoujing's comments on the inscription in the Qing Dynasty that "it became a fashion in Wei and Jin Dynasties".
Wei Heng's Four-body Calligraphy in the Western Jin Dynasty said that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, "Wang Ci in Shanggu initiated the method of opening books", but the book has no historical records and cannot be verified. The first great calligrapher famous for regular script was handed down from the first year of Yuan Jia, Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to the fourth year of Taihe (l5 1-230).