-Regular script
Regular script is a common handwritten font style in China's calligraphy, and it is a modern popular handwritten Chinese character. This style is gradually evolved from official script, which is more simplified, horizontal and vertical, and can be divided into big letters, middle letters and small letters. Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan and Zhao Mengfu are four masters of regular script.
Regular script is also called regular script, real script and official script. Li Shu, founded by Cheng Miao, has gradually evolved and become more simplified and level. Ci Hai is interpreted as "square and straight, which can be used as a model." Hence the name regular script. It began at the end of the Han dynasty and has been popular until modern times.
The appearance of regular script follows closely Han Li's composition and pursues the further development of formal beauty. During the Three Kingdoms period at the end of Han Dynasty, the writing of Chinese characters gradually changed from wave to wave, with strokes such as side (point), left (long left), peck (short left) and lift (straight hook), and the structure was more neat. Such as Wuwei medical bamboo slips and Juyan Han bamboo slips. Regular script is characterized by neat rules and is a model in fonts, so it is called regular script and has been used until modern times.
Regular script is the most popular script in China feudal society from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Jin and Tang Dynasties. Before the appearance of regular script, China calligraphy had produced three styles: Da Zhuan, Xiao Zhuan and Li Shu.
Generally speaking, the ancient characters before Xiao Zhuan are collectively referred to as Da Zhuan, including Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and six languages except Qin in the Warring States Period. Xiao Zhuan is a popular script after Qin unified China. On the basis of Qin script, refer to other vassal scripts. In order to facilitate writing, it is standardized and unified. This is the first standardized regular script in the history of calligraphy in China.
Official script is another representative character after Xiao seal, which is based on Xiao seal. The appearance of official script is a great revolution of Chinese characters. Its significance lies not only in the symbolization of Chinese characters, but more importantly, it has changed the writing style and aesthetic trend of Chinese characters, thus laying a foundation for the emergence of regular script calligraphy art and further opening up a broad world for the development and prosperity of China calligraphy art.
Li Zhimin, a pioneer and professor of Peking University, believed that the unification of the six languages by Qin Shihuang was of positive significance to the social progress at that time, but it was not necessarily conducive to the development of calligraphy art.