2. Chinese Standard or Regular Brush Scripts

This is an Example of Standard or Regular Brush Scripts. (Kaishu)

There are different Chinese scripts. On the left is an example of Regular, Standard, or Clerical script. It is derived from lishu (official or clerical script) and was developed in the 1st century AD. The strokes must be each be clearly defined and possessed of tensile strength or "bone." These may be thought as composed out of a set repertoire of types of brush stroke, each of which remains distinct. They range from the "official script" first used under the Qin Dynasty and then formally under the Han dynasty to the "regular style" that is the basis of today's printed characters.