What texts were popular in the Song Dynasty? What causes this? Today I am here to talk to you.
In the Song Dynasty, with the development of papermaking, woodblock printing was widely used, and Chinese characters were further improved and developed, forming a new style of calligraphy - Song Dynasty printing font. After the invention of papermaking, the engraving tools used for printing had a profound impact on the shape of the text, resulting in a printing font that was thin horizontally and thick vertically, the most eye-catching and easiest to read, which was later called Song Dynasty. At that time, there were two types of font styles: fat and thin, fat imitating Yan style and Liu style, and thin imitating European style and Yu style. Among them, the Yan-style and Liu-style brush strokes stand out, and they already have some characteristics of thin horizontally and thick vertically.
Song style is a Chinese character printing font invented in the Song Dynasty of China. The strokes of the characters vary in size, and are generally thin horizontally and thick vertically. There is a decorative part (i.e. "foot" or "serif") at the end. Strokes such as dots, strokes, strokes, and hooks have tips, which belong to the white body style. , commonly used in the text layout design of articles printed in books, magazines, periodicals, and newspapers. Because it was introduced to Japan from the Ming Dynasty, it was also called Ming style or Ming Dynasty style.
Song style had already been formed in the Song Dynasty, but it was not mature. Moreover, the Song Dynasty respected the Yan style, Liu style, and European style that imitated calligraphy fonts. Until the Ming Dynasty, due to economic development factors, the Song style, which occupied a smaller space, gradually became popular. Because this font lacked the expressiveness of change, it was criticized by the literati of the Ming Dynasty as "carpenter style". Song-style characters spread eastward to Japan, where they were called Ming Dynasty characters. Today it has become a popular printing font in the Chinese character culture circle.
After modern papermaking technology was introduced to China, the Chinese people have been accustomed to reading books printed in Song font for more than a thousand years, so contemporary typefaces also use Song font packaging and printing. Later, based on the methods of Heilongji and Italic in Western texts, Heilongji and Song-style typefaces were also created in Chinese Han character printing. At present, Song font, Hei font, Song font and Kai font have become the main four font styles for Chinese character printing.
Song style originated from the Southern Dynasties and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It has a history of more than a thousand years. In the tangible corporate culture, it has been used since ancient times without many changes. It should be recommended first. It's in Song Dynasty. The morphological characteristics and spiritual characteristics of Song Dynasty have also invisibly affected generations of Chinese people.
Chinese people practice writing in small squares and large square notebooks since childhood. The teacher stipulates that the words should be arranged according to the stroke order of the font style, and the words should be written evenly, vertically and centered in the squares. It is not possible to deviate from the square or exceed the square. The strokes of the characters must be arranged within the square, be courteous to each other, arrange each order and each stroke, and make good use of every small space.
Chinese characters have one stroke and more than ten strokes, such as "Hao" and "D". How to allocate the relationship between Chinese character strokes and the black and white of few strokes and multiple strokes? The common problems of light and heavy must be dealt with flexibly. It is precisely these factors that have cultivated the national character of traditional Chinese people who require integrity and are good at running places.
Song style directly inherits the spirit of Chinese calligraphy and regular script, and transforms Chinese calligraphy and regular script into printed Song style characters without any trace, and deeply affects our aesthetic taste. The Song font is square and stable, symmetrical and balanced, the font structure of fluctuations and give-and-take, dignified and elegant, stretching the air, appropriate use, and pursuing the spiritual meaning of perfection, all affect our behavior all the time.
The artistic aesthetic spirit of Song Dynasty has undoubtedly been deeply rooted in the spiritual aura of our Chinese nation, and in its progress, it has continuously been introduced into the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Aesthetic ideals and the cultural and spiritual meaning of the Chinese nation have become the clothes of Chinese culture.