★This is a set of exercise books, which provide classic brush calligraphy copybooks as the model for copying with a hard pen in Nine Chequers. It helps readers take systematic and in-depth ancient calligraphy copying training from easy to difficult, step by step.
★Looking back the development of the regular script, just like a river, it derived from the flowing official script as the source, with another parallel tributary of the elegant running script, and then converged to a great river of the regular script. Finally, it became what it is now, the application of which is as wide as sea. There we can also see the agile regular script in small characters.
★Our copybooks provide effective model copying training with the authentic classic ancient rubbings passed down from ancient times. They also offer teaching via video, which is very suitable for enthusiasts who want to acquire good handwriting, especially beginners.

This set of calligraphy copybooks features:
1) Classic ancient rubbings, with the original rubbings and characters scaled down, as authentic as the original one
2) Per the theory “Great truths are always simple”, capturing the core point of learning calligraphy, “practice”
3) Accurate copying practice of individual characters, copying of the entire original rubbings and appreciation of the enlarged version of the original rubbings
4) Systematic and in-depth training in tracing and copying
5) With the traditional classic Rice-Character Grids for precise positioning of dots and paintings and improvement of character structuring

This series contains the following works:
Small "Cottage" in Ten Chronicles by Wen Zhengming
Miaoyan Temple Notes by Zhao Mengfu
Danba Tablet by Zhao Mengfu
Commemorative Stone Tablet for the Sweet Spring near the Jiucheng Palace by Ouyang Xun
Regular Script "Thousand Characters Classic" by Zhi Yong
Preface to the Sacred Teaching Scriptures by Wang Xizhi
Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion by Wang Xizhi
Stele Inscription on the Filial Daughter Maiden [Cao E] by Wang Xizhi
Narration on Yue Yi by Wang Xizhi
Petition in Reply to the Announcement by Zhong You

Editors-in-Chief:
Lu Zhongnan
He is a former member of the research institute of the Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution (Chinese Military Museum), Director of the Calligraphy and Seal Engraving Committee of the Art and Calligraphy Creation Center of the Chinese Military Museum, a member of the 10th to 12th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Director of the 5th to 7th Chinese Calligraphers Association, a member of the Regular Script Committee of the 6th Chinese Calligraphers Association, Secretary-General of the Ideological and Theoretical Engineering Department of the Industry Construction Committee of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, and a member of the art committee of the PLA Academy of Fine Arts and Calligraphy Creation.
Jin Rifa
He used to be the Director of the Editorial Department of Calligraphy Newspaper • Hard-Pen Calligraphy. Now he is the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Calligraphy Art website (www.sfrx.cn) of Calligraphy Newspaper and the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Videos of Calligraphy Newspaper.

Compiled by:
Li Bo
He is Standing Director of China Educational Calligraphers and Painters Association, Director of Guizhou Calligraphy Education Research Association, a member of China Hard-Pen Calligraphy Online Editorial Board, a member of China Hard-Pen Calligraphers Association, and a member of Chinese Cultural Information Association and Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Art Committee.