Regular Script: Copy and Practice Tombstone-Record of Zhuang Xuan from the Tablet of the Northern Dynasties
- Coping and Practicing Calligraphy of Past Dynasties Series
Instructor: Yu Xiaoyong
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Published by Beijing Zhonglutongfang Audio-Visual Publishing House, 2005
Media: VCD
ISBN: 7880106936

The regular script or standard script, or in Chinese kaishu, also commonly known as standard regular, is the newest of the Chinese calligraphy styles (appearing by the Cao Wei dynasty ca. 200 CE and maturing stylistically around the 7th century), hence most common in modern writings and publications (after the non-calligraphic printing Song Ti). It is also occasionally known as true script (zhenshu) and standard script (zhengshu), formal script. It is simpler in structure and square in shape. To be specific, it has more standardized horizontal and vertical. The integral feature of regular script is neatness and orderliness, for which it is widely used and favored today. Regular script became popular in the period of Six Dynasties, and entered prosperity and boom in Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Xuan was the satrap of Nanyang in Northern Wei. Epitaph for Zhang Xuan was calligraph in regular script dated to 531 AD. The carved stone was one of the famous Northern Dynasties' tablets, being unearthed in the 18thy century, then lost. A rubbing book collected by He Shaoji (a well known calligraphist and poet in Qing) is the only existing copy, which is now stored in the Shanghai Museum.

The calligraphy is very fine. Kaishu characters look flat, unadorned and elegant, like the style of clerical. The beauty of Epitaph for Zhang Xuan has both the grand spirit of north stele and gentle and cultivated charm of south copybook. According to Mr. He, Epitaph for Zhang Xuan syncretized a prime element of seal character into regular script, no work more powerful and fine than this one.

Instructor Yu Xiaoyong, a doctor of letters (calligraphy), works as post-doctor of art in Beijing Normal University.

商品名称：历代书法临习之楷书—魏碑《张玄墓志》（1VCD）
主讲人：虞晓勇
出版社：北京中录同方音像出版社，2005
ISBN：7880106936

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《张玄墓志》为楷书，北魏著名刻石之一。道光五年（1825年）开始归何绍基收藏。何氏书法主要得力于篆隶、颜书，并广学北朝碑版、旁参《道因法师碑》，何对《张玄墓志》尤为推崇。他说：“余自得此帖后，旋观海于登州，既而旋楚。次年丙戍入都，丁亥游汴，复入都、旋楚。戍子冬复入都。往返二万余里，是本无日不在箧中也。船窗行店，寂坐欣赏，所获多矣”。

此志书法精美，刻工亦佳。字形略扁，多有隶书笔意、古质典雅。用笔方圆结合，既有北碑俊迈之气，又含南帖温文尔雅。何绍基在题跋中由衷赞曰“化篆分入楷，遂尔无种不妙，无妙不臻，然遒厚精古，未有可比肩〈黑女〉者”。原拓本今藏上海博物馆。《张玄墓志》即为孤本，其余拓本只能是重刻本，均未体现原拓神采。今人眼福，可从精印印刷品中得睹拓本全貌。

主讲人虞晓勇，文学（书法）博士。现为北京师范大学艺术学博士后、中国书法家协会会员、北江书法家协会教育与出版委员会副主任、中国书法家协会教育委员会北京素质教育基地委员。著有《中国书法家全集•虞世南》，出版教材有《〈张迁碑〉技法解析》，并有十余篇学术论文发表于《书法研究》、《书法丛刊》等专业期刊。书法创作以隶书、魏碑和行书见长，多次入选国展。

主要内容：
1、《张玄墓志》简介
2、《张玄墓志》的笔法与结构
3、临摹示范
4、创作示范