Regular script, also known as original script and official script, began in the late Han Dynasty and has been popular ever since. Regular script is a font developed on the basis of official script. It turns a flat official script into a square "square character". Because it has the characteristics of straight strokes, square shape and standardized structure, it can be used as a model for literacy and copying, so it is called regular script.
Regular script was formed at the end of Eastern Han Dynasty, which developed greatly in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and became perfect in Tang Dynasty.
Regular script is divided into lowercase and uppercase:
Small script, as its name implies, is a small regular script, which was founded in Zhong You during the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms. He used to be the most outstanding official script authority, and his regular script brushwork was also born in Han Li. His brushwork is as vivid as Hong Fei's frolicking in the sea. When Wang Xizhi came to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he studied the lower case calligraphy more carefully and made it perfect, which also set a good appreciation standard for China's lower case calligraphy.
Block letters, under normal circumstances, people call real books more than one inch and several inches square block letters. The larger characters in real books are called "Bangshu" and "Broken Book". According to the accumulated experience of calligraphers in past dynasties, learning calligraphy should start with writing big characters and doing basic exercises.
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Famous writers of regular script in past dynasties
Regular script is simpler and faster than official script, and more standardized and readable than cursive script, so it has been widely used as a standard font since Chinese characters appeared, which has great practical value.
There are many famous regular script writers in the past dynasties. The four most famous ones are Ou Yangxun (European style), Yan Zhenqing (Yan style), Liu Gongquan (Liu Ti) and Zhao Mengfu (Zhao Ti).
Ou Yangxun was born in the first year of Yongding, Emperor Wu of the Southern Dynasties (557). He is famous for his regular script and running script. As the biggest regular script writer in the history of calligraphy, his handwriting is called "European style".
Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy can be divided into pre-and post-periods, and vigorous and powerful style was formed only after 50 years old. His regular script characters are particularly vigorous and have a "lofty and inviolable color", and the book is quite close to his character.
Liu Gongquan, thirteen years in Dali, Tang Daizong, and six years in Xian Tong, Tang Yizong, died at the age of 88. Jing is a local. The palace is a prince, so the deceased called it "Liu". He began to learn from Wang Xizhi, the brushwork of Ou Yangxun and Yan Zhenqing, and then set up his own family. The regular script written is beautiful and strong. Compared with Yan Ti, Liuzi is slightly thinner, so it is called "Yan Liu Jin Gu".
Zhao Mengfu (1254- 1322) is a native of Huzhou, Zhejiang. Official to Hanlin Bachelor, Doctor Rong Lu, Duke Wei, History. He is the author of Song Xuezhai Collection. Zhao Mengfu was an influential calligrapher in the early Yuan Dynasty.
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