Traditionally speaking, there are five types of calligraphy fonts: running script fonts, cursive script fonts, official script fonts, seal script fonts and regular script fonts, which are five major categories.
In each major category, it is subdivided into several smaller categories. For example, seal script is divided into large seal script and small seal script, regular script is divided into Wei Stele script and Tang Kai script, and cursive script is divided into Zhangcao, Jincao and Kuangcao. .
Regular script is also called Zhengkai, Zhenshu, and Zhengshu. It gradually evolved from the official script founded by Cheng Miao, becoming more simplified, horizontal and vertical. "Cihai" explains that it "has a square shape and straight strokes, which can be used as a model." Hence the name regular script.
It began in the late Han Dynasty and has been popular ever since. The emergence of regular script closely followed the rules and regulations of the Han Dynasty, and pursued the further development of physical beauty. At the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, the writing of Chinese characters gradually changed into waves, stilts, and strokes, and added "side" (dot), " Strokes such as "plunder" (long strokes), "peck" (short strokes), and "ti" (straight hooks) make the structure more rigorous. Regular script is characterized by neat rules and is a model among fonts, so it is called regular script and has been used to this day.