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Description: One of the Chinese fonts is the popular handwritten orthographic Chinese characters, which evolved from official script. Also known as block letters.
Regular script is also called regular script, real script and official script. Li Shu, founded by Cheng Miao, has gradually evolved and become more simplified and level. Flat and vertical. Ci Hai is interpreted as "square and straight, which can be used as a model." Hence the name regular script. It started at the end of the Han Dynasty and has been popular ever since.
The appearance of regular script follows closely Han Li's composition and pursues the further development of formal beauty. During the Three Kingdoms period at the end of Han Dynasty, the writing of Chinese characters gradually changed from waves to "left" (dot), "sweep" (long left), "peck" (short left) and "lift" (straight hook). Such as Wuwei medical bamboo slips and Juyan Han bamboo slips. Regular script is characterized by neat rules and is a model in fonts, so it is called regular script and has been used ever since.
Regular script has the meaning of model, which was first mentioned in Zhang Huaiguan's Shu Duan. People in the Six Dynasties still used it habitually, such as Yang Xin's Cai, and On the Biography of Wei Shou, saying, "Shou is a general, and Beijing people are good at regular script." That's the abbreviation of "eight-block method" It was not until the Northern Song Dynasty that the name of Zhengshu was replaced, and its content was obviously different from the ancient name. There is probably an example of the above.
Regular script is the most popular script in China feudal society from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Jin and Tang Dynasties. Before the appearance of regular script, China calligraphy had produced three styles: Da Zhuan, Xiao Zhuan and Li Shu. Generally speaking, the ancient characters before Xiao Zhuan are collectively referred to as Da Zhuan, including Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and six languages except Qin in the Warring States Period. Xiao Zhuan is a popular script after Qin unified China. On the basis of Qin script, refer to other vassal scripts. In order to facilitate writing, it is standardized and unified. This is the first standardized regular script in the history of calligraphy in China. Official script is another representative character after Xiao seal, which is based on Xiao seal. The appearance of official script is a great revolution of Chinese characters. Its significance lies not only in the symbolization of Chinese characters, but also in changing the writing style and aesthetic trend of Chinese characters, thus laying a foundation for the emergence of regular script calligraphy art and further opening up a broad world for the development and prosperity of China calligraphy art. Li Zhimin, a pioneer and professor of Peking University, believed that Qin Shihuang's unification of the six languages was of positive significance to the social progress at that time, but it was not necessarily conducive to the development of calligraphy art. [ 1]
You Zhonghui's regular script directly gave birth to the art of regular script in various bookstores in Qin and Han dynasties (it was called official script at that time, that is, it was supplemented by small seal script, which made writing faster). According to its laws, the development history of regular script in China can be divided into four periods: the embryonic period of regular script-Qin and Han dynasties, the development period of regular script-Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the prosperous period of regular script-Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, and the mature period of regular script-Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Song Xuanhe's Book Score: "In the early Han Dynasty, Wang Cizhong began to use official script as regular script." The regular script here actually refers to the eight-part essay created by Wang Cizhong, not the so-called regular script today. He also said: "On the tomb of Confucius, a regular script tree planted by Zigong is tall and unyielding." The strokes of regular script are concise and refreshing, and must be like the branches of regular script trees.