Song Ti was invented by Qin Gui? What is the source of this rumor?
I didn't expect anyone to believe such an old rumor. Then I will start another ballad here. You have seen many Song fonts, but they are all on computer screens and printed books. Have any of you ever seen calligraphers write Song in their works? The characteristics of Songti are obvious: horizontal and vertical, horizontal and thin and vertical, angular and undulating, square font and blunt strokes. See if this font can be written with a brush, let alone a brush, which is today's hard pen. Can you write this font? Obviously, there is only one way to make such a straight and hard stroke, and that is a meat cleaver. Yes, the so-called Song style is the words that ancient printers carved on the board with a carving knife when carving. Because it is carved with a knife, every painting is extremely stiff and absolutely straight. When you can walk in a straight line, you must not be radian, so when you start writing, you will have edges and corners. In a word, all the features of Songti are inseparable from the tool of "meat cleaver". Because Song Ti is the working font of ancient sculptors, it doesn't pay attention to any style, so it looks stiff, because it pursues efficiency and standards, not art. Since the word Song Ti was born in the Ming Dynasty, why is it called Song Ti? That's because the Song Dynasty was the age when China's printing was just mature. Printing in Song Dynasty was rather rigid, and there was no independent working font, but it was still written by hand. Since it is handwritten, of course, it is necessary to use famous copybooks. Therefore, most of the books in the Song Dynasty used famous fonts such as Yan Ti, Ou Ti and Liu Ti, which is one of the reasons why the books in the Song Dynasty are very beautiful.