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What is regular script like?

The style of regular script characters is square and straight, which can be used as a model.

Regular script, a font of Chinese characters, is also called regular script, regular script, original script and regular script. It gradually evolved from official script, becoming more simplified and more horizontal and vertical. The book Ci Hai is interpreted as "square in shape and straight in brushwork, which can be used as a model". This kind of Chinese character has the correct font and is a modern popular handwritten orthographic Chinese character.

The overall sense of regular script, first of all, is neat. The arrangement of words and lines is equidistant, giving people a steady and solemn visual effect. This form is most suitable for regular script in a strict sense. The biggest feature of Zhao Ti's regular script is that it contains elements of running script, and its brushwork is changeable, taking characters as shapes, without deliberate arrangement, and it has a very harmonious and unified relationship in diversity and changeability. It gives people the feeling that there is movement in silence and affection in words.

Lowercase and uppercase

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. 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. Master the stippling, structure and white cloth in block letters, so that the stippling is accurate and the structure is appropriate.