Regular script is also called Zhengshu and Zhenshu.
Kaishu, a font of Chinese characters, is also called regular script, regular script, true script, and regular script. It gradually evolved from the official script and became more simplified, horizontal and vertical. The book "Cihai" explains that it has "a square shape and straight strokes, which can be used as a model." This kind of Chinese character font is correct and is the modern traditional handwritten Chinese character.
Kaishu is also a kind of official name. "New Book of Tang·Hundred Officials 2" records that there are 20 regular script writers in Zhongshu Provincial History Museum and 18 regular script writers on national history. Kaishu, as an official name, is also called Kaishu Shou. The person in charge of writing is juxtaposed in the same organization, and the specific division of labor is different. "Tongdian·Twenty-Two Officials" records that the regular script writer is an official with outstanding honors from outside the country. In the Song Dynasty, there was no regular script calligrapher, only regular script.
Classification of regular script fonts
Xiaokai: Xiaokai, as the name suggests, is the smallest form of regular script and was founded by Zhong Yao in the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms. He was originally an outstanding master of official script, and the style of his regular script was also derived from Han official script. His writing style was like a flying dragon playing in the sea, which was extremely vivid. However, the structure is wide and flat, the horizontal strokes are long and the straight strokes are short, which still retains the legacy of official script. However, the regular script has been fully prepared, and it is actually the ancestor of the official script. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi studied the small regular script calligraphy more carefully, bringing it to a state of perfection, and also established the standard for the appreciation of the beautiful small regular script calligraphy in China.
Dakai: Generally speaking, people refer to real books that are more than an inch and less than a few inches square as Dakai. Larger real books with large characters are called "Bangshu" and "Zhaohushu". According to the accumulated experience of calligraphers of the past dynasties, when learning calligraphy, you should first write regular script and do basic exercises. Master the stippling, structure, and layout of large regular script well, so that the stippling is accurate and precise, and the structure is appropriately dense. Then you can retreat to small regular script to achieve a broad and open structure, and the rules of stippling are clear; then the book list can be dense and seamless. The spirit is magnificent and does not lead to laxity and lack of spirit.