Who created the imitation song style?

Imitation Song is a traditional Chinese character printing font, which imitates the fonts of books published by Chen Zhai Bookstore in Lin 'an in the Southern Song Dynasty. Imitation of Song Dynasty is a handsome and straight font with Song structure and regular script strokes. The strokes are horizontal and vertical, and are often used for typesetting subtitles, poems, notes, quotations, etc. It is also used for typesetting the text parts in some reading materials.

In order to meet the needs of block printing, the engraver requires a more neat and standardized font than regular script. After continuous exploration, they have created a more standardized block font, which is very close to regular script, and there is not much difference between horizontal and vertical strokes.

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Development history

In the Ming Dynasty, this kind of seal cutting font developed more standardized, and became a slightly angular font, which was later called Old Song Style. At the beginning of the 20th century, Ding Fuzhi, Ding and others in Qiantang collected the engraving fonts of Song Dynasty and copied a printing movable type font. This font has the same thickness in horizontal and vertical directions, beautiful strokes, rectangular shape and exquisite and beautiful appearance.

Imitation of Song Dynasty is more convenient and faster than Song Dynasty and black body, because as long as the font is calculated, you can write directly with a pen or a brush (with a hard wolfram pen).

On the other hand, imitation of Song pays attention to structural modeling, which is close to regular script. Practicing imitation of Song Dynasty is conducive to accurately mastering the basic structure of Chinese characters, and it is more convenient and quick to learn other fine arts fonts on this basis. Therefore, some comrades advocate that learning calligraphy should start with imitating the Song Dynasty, which is also very reasonable.