If you want to practice pen writing, do you have to start with regular script?

Yes, regular script is the basis of practicing Chinese characters. The font structure and stroke order are all practiced from regular script, so it is necessary to start from regular script.

Regular script is also called block script, real script and official script. It gradually evolved from official script, becoming more simplified and horizontal and vertical. Ci Hai explains that it is "square in shape and straight in strokes, which can be used as a model". This kind of Chinese character font is the commonly used handwritten orthographic Chinese character.

The rules of regular script are not complicated, and its main forms are nave, couplets, banners, horizontal draperies and fan faces. In the arrangement of regular script, the word spacing and line spacing are basically the same, but some line spacing is greater than the word spacing; All of them are written vertically from right to left, and those with fewer words are still written from right to left; Modern Chinese is written horizontally from left to right, and this method can also be used under special needs, but it is still better to write vertically from right to left.

To practice regular script, we should work hard on both strokes and structure. Practice strokes, mainly to solve the problem of using pens, with the aim of producing qualified "parts"; Practice structure, mainly to solve the problem of combination between strokes and radicals, with the aim of learning structural methods and mastering structural rules, so as to achieve the requirements of writing words correctly, neatly and beautifully.