Copybooks can help children practice different font of handwriting and build their own style. Because they just learn writing for a short time, it is hard for children to write characters in their own style. Today children in China who enter school would have a copybook for learning characters. Most calligraphy is for brushes, but there is also hard calligraphy, using ballpoint pens, pencils, or fountain pens. The styles of calligraphy that are used in copybooks include the regular script (楷書, 楷书）, the cursive script（草書, 草书）, the running script（行書, 行书）, the clerical script（隸書, 隶书）, and the seal script（篆書, 篆书）. Classification Ĭopybooks can be divided according to the style of calligraphy and the kind of pen used. Later the Thousand Character Classic became a systematic copybook. The emperor of Liang Dynasty, Xiao Yan, made a rubbing of one thousand characters from the famous calligrapher Wang Xizhi, and made sentences and paragraphs for the one thousand characters, which became known as the Thousand Character Classic. Later, people made rubbings of the stone on paper so that they could copy and learn the famous calligraphy. In ancient times, famous calligraphy was carved in stone. Copybooks of various styles of calligraphyĪ copybook is a book containing examples of calligraphic script, meant to be copied while practicing calligraphy.

Calligraphy on autodesk sketchbook