Original title: Whose font is Song Style Imitation?
"Imitating Song Style" is not completely modeled after the font of a calligrapher and celebrity in the Song Dynasty, but based on the engraving font of the Song version of the book.
why should we imitate the song dynasty, but not the sui and Tang dynasties or the Ming and Qing dynasties? Imitating the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were no large-scale block-printed books at that time, and the selection of words was obviously insufficient; Imitating the Ming and Qing Dynasties is not as good as imitating the Song Dynasty directly. Because most of the engraving fonts in Ming and Qing Dynasties are imitation of Song Dynasty, or they were created indirectly from Song Dynasty.
It is more convenient and faster to write in imitation of Song Dynasty than in Song Dynasty and in bold, because you can write directly with a pen or a brush (with a hard wolfram pen) as long as you calculate the font. On the other hand, imitation of Song Dynasty 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 fast to learn other fine arts fonts on this basis. Therefore, some comrades advocate that learning calligraphy should start with learning imitation of Song Dynasty, which is also very reasonable.
Imitation of Song Style evolved from the development of regular script, and the economy of Song Dynasty in China developed to a certain extent. Our ancestors first invented printing. In order to meet the needs of block printing, engravers require 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. In the Ming Dynasty, this kind of engraving font developed more standardized, and became a font with light horizontal and heavy vertical, slightly angular, which was later called Old Song Style. At the beginning of the 2th century, Qiantang Ding Fuzhi, Ding Shanzhi and others collected the engraving fonts of the Song Dynasty, and imitated a printed movable type font. This font has the same thickness in horizontal and vertical directions, beautiful strokes, rectangular glyphs, and delicate and beautiful appearance.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Ding Fuzhi and Ding Sanzai, the former presidents of Xiling Printing Society, decided to collect books from the Song Dynasty, copy and engrave movable type by themselves. By 1916, this kind of regular script, which was processed and designed by two brothers, was named "Imitating Song Style" because the original fonts were all from Song books.