The Ninety-two Methods of Structure Summary, also known as the Ninety-two Methods of Regular Script Structure, was written by Ying Shao, a master of regular script in the late Qing Dynasty, and copied in Huang Zi in the tenth year of Guangxu. After the founding of New China, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House reprinted Huang Ziyuan's Ninety-two Laws on Frame Structure of Regular Script. Since the Yuan Dynasty, he began to learn from Yan Zhenqing, and then from Liu Gongquan, Ou Yangxun and Ying Shao, learning from others and forming his own family style.
On the basis of Ou Yangxun's "Thirty-six Methods of Shelving" and Ying Shao's works, Huang Ziyuan systematically and comprehensively studied and analyzed the laws of Chinese character structure combination, and summarized 92 writing methods of Chinese character structure, each with typical examples.
Huang Ziyuan (1837- 19 16), a native of Anhua, Hunan Province in the late Qing Dynasty, was a scholar in Tongzhi for seven years (A.D. 1868) and was the top scholar in the middle school. He was a government doctor, working in imperial academy, and later served as an examiner in the provincial examination. Editor-in-chief of Guan Zhi Wu Yingtang, edited by Hanlin Academy, producer of Shaanxi Daoyushi and Gansu Ningxia Magistrate. After the age of 50, he left his post and returned to China, giving lectures and entertaining himself with calligraphy. Huang Zi Yuan began to learn from Yan Zhenqing, and then from Ying Shao, and learned from others and formed his own family law.
His regular script is a collection of European, Yan and Liu Zhichang, which not only has the brushwork structure of European style, but also has the vigorous brushwork of Yan, and also sees the strength of Liu's body and bone, so he is worthy of being a regular script master. The "Ninety-two Methods of Architecture Summary" copied by him is a relatively complete and practical calligraphy post, which has a great influence on later calligraphers. It is not only suitable for beginners to learn, but also suitable for calligraphy lovers to refer to and appreciate.