The regular script is beautiful.
The name "regular script" has three main meanings in history:
01. To a certain extent, it represents the standard words of a certain era, so in a specific historical period, Seal script, official script and even cursive script can all be called regular script, which means that it has rules and can be used as regular and model calligraphy. Wei Heng's "Si Ti Shu Shi" said: "Cizhong, the king of Shanggu, began to write regular script." This refers to the eight points (official script) as regular script. He also said: "Bo Ying's writing must be regular script", which means that cursive script is regular script. Liu Xizai of the Qing Dynasty said in his "Yi Gai": "The regular script has no definite name, and it is not only the official script that should be used. King Beihai of the Han Dynasty, Jing Wang Mu, was good at writing historical records, and the world regarded it as regular script. The big seal script can be called regular script." This means that the big seal script is called regular script.
02. Official script. Cai Mao's "Encouragement to Learning" at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty said: "Shanggu Cizhong changed for the first time to its ancient form." "Book of Jin·Biography of Wei Heng": "Wang Cizhong of Shanggu began to write regular script." Wang_"Ancient and Modern Chinese Characters": "Wang Cizhong began to use the ancient calligraphy Fang Guangshaobo style; Jianjun Middle School used official script to write regular script, and the character Fang "Eight points, words have a model." Zhang Huai's "Shu Duan·Eight Points": "Eight points have been reduced by half of the seal, and the official has been reduced by half of the eighth. However, it can be said that the son is like the father, but not the father is like the son. Therefore, it is known that official script cannot produce eight points. This is called regular script, and regular script refers to method, style, and model. "Liu Xizai of the Qing Dynasty" said in "Kai Fa" written by Wang Cizhong, which refers to eight points. "Here official script refers specifically to regular script.
03. It refers to regular script, which refers to regular script in our current sense. The word "regular script" is an important font name for Chinese characters. It was first seen in Wang Xianzhi's nephew Yang Xin's "Cai Gu Lai Ability to Write Names of People": "(Wei) Dan, courtesy name Zhongjiang, was born in Jingzhao. He was good at regular script and was a treasure of the palaces of the Han and Wei dynasties. The instruments are all handwritten by Dan. "Wei Dan was a famous calligrapher in the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms. Qi Gong also said: "The adjective regular script was used as the proper name of an independent calligraphy style only after the Jin Dynasty." This statement is basically consistent with the time when Yang Xin proposed the concept of regular script.