The style of regular script characters is square in shape and straight in strokes, which can be used as a model. Regular script gradually evolved from official script, becoming more simplified and horizontal and vertical. The emergence of regular script closely follows han li's rules and regulations, and pursues the further development of physical beauty. In the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, the writing of Chinese characters gradually changed from wave to wave, and it was left off and pressed, and there were strokes such as side (point), grazing (long left), "pecking" (short left) and lifting (straight hook), which made the structure more neat. In regular script, the characters are divided into block letters and small letters
1. Small letters. As the name implies, it is a small regular script, which was founded in Zhong You in the Three Kingdoms Wei Dynasty. He used to be an outstanding master of official script, and the brushwork of regular script was also born in han li, and his brushwork was as vivid as playing in the sea. However, the structure is wide and flat, the horizontal painting is long and the straight painting is short, and the legacy of the official points still exists. However, the model method has been prepared, and it is actually the ancestor of the official book. When Wang Xizhi arrived in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he studied the lower case calligraphy more carefully, making it perfect, and also set a beautiful appreciation standard for lower case calligraphy in China.
2. block letters. Under normal circumstances, people call real books that are more than one inch and less than a few inches square block letters. The larger characters of real books are called "list books" and "broken books". According to the accumulated experience of calligraphers in past dynasties, learning calligraphy should start with writing big letters and doing basic exercises. Mastering the stippling, structure and white cloth of block letters, so that stippling is accurate and accurate, and the structure is appropriate, then writing in block letters can be done in a broad way and the stippling rules are clear; Furthermore, learning the list book can be intimate and broad-minded, and it will not be distracted.
Extended information:
In the early days of regular script, there were still very few official scripts, with a slightly wider structure and long horizontal paintings and short vertical paintings. In the Wei and Jin dynasties handed down from ancient times, such as Zhong You's Declaration Table (left), Ji Zhi Table, Wang Xizhi's Theory of Music and Yi, and Wang Xizhi's Theory of Music and Yi. 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 be used under special needs, but it is still better to write vertically from right to left.
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