The style of regular script characters is square and straight, which can be used as a model. Regular script gradually evolved from official script, becoming more simplified and more horizontal and vertical. The appearance of regular script follows closely Han Li's composition and pursues the further development of formal beauty. By the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, the writing of Chinese characters had gradually changed from wave-like to wave-like, with strokes such as apostrophe (dot), apostrophe (long apostrophe), peck (short apostrophe) and lift (straight hook), and the structure was more neat. In regular script, characters are divided into uppercase letters and lowercase letters.

1, lowercase. As the name implies, it is a small regular script, which was founded in Zhong You of the Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms. He was once an outstanding master of official script, and the brushwork of regular script was born in Han Li. His brushwork is as vivid as playing in the sea. However, the structure is wide and flat, the horizontal painting is long and the vertical painting is short, and the legacy of official division still exists. However, the model method is ready, and it is actually the ancestor of the official book. When Wang Xizhi came to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he studied the lower case calligraphy more carefully and made it perfect, which also set a good appreciation standard for China's lower case calligraphy.

2. block letters. Under normal circumstances, people call block letters one inch or more and a few inches or less block letters. The larger characters in real books are called "Bangshu" and "Broken Book". According to the accumulated experience of calligraphers in past dynasties, learning calligraphy should start with writing big characters and doing basic exercises. Mastering the stippling, structure and white cloth in block letters, and making stippling accurate and proper, then writing in block letters can be comprehensive and the stippling rules are clear; Moreover, the study list can be intimate, open-minded and not distracted.

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The early official script was few, with a slightly wider structure, long horizontal painting and short vertical painting. It was a representative work handed down from generation to generation in Wei and Jin Dynasties, such as Zhong You's Declaration Form (left), Ji Zhi Biao, Wang Xizhi's On Yue Yi and Huang Tingjing. The rules of regular script are not complicated, and the main forms are nave, couplets, banners, horizontal accounts and sectors. 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; They are all 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. This method can also be used under special needs, but it is better to write vertically from right to left.

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