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Kai Style, the Regular Script (One of the Most Popular Chinese Calligraphy Styles)
The lishu was already very close to, and led to the adoption of, kaishu, regular script. The oldest existing example of this dates from the Wei (220-265), and the script developed under the Jin (265-420). The standard writing today is square in form, non-cursive and architectural in style. The characters are composed of a number of strokes out of a total of eight kinds-the dot, the horizontal, the vertical, the hook, the rising, the left-falling (short and long) and the right-falling strokes. Any aspirant for the status of calligrapher must start by learning to write a good
The Regular Script is one of the last major calligraphic styles to develop, emerging between the Hn dynasty and Three Kingdoms period, gaining dominance in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and maturing in the Tng Dynasty. It emerged from a neatly written, early period semi-cursive form of clerical script. As the name suggests, the Regular Script is "regular", with each of the strokes placed slowly and carefully, the brush lifted from the paper and all the strokes distinct from each other. The Regular Script is also the easiest to recognize and read, as it is the script in which most beginners learn to write East Asian scripts.
The Regular Script is usually studied first to give students a feel for correct placement and balance, as well as to provide a proper base for the other, more flowing styles.
The most famous regular script calligraphers of the Tang Dynasty whose style are imitated by latecomers include:
* The early Tang four great calligraphers: Ouyang Xun, Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang, Xue Ji
* "Yan-Liu" representative masters: Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan
Those regular script characters with width (or length) larger than 5 cm (2 in) is usually considered larger regular script, or dakai, and those smaller than 2 cm (0.8 in) usually small regular script, or xiaokai. Those in between are usually called medium regular script, or zhongkai.
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