Popular fonts refer to popular fonts that are mainly popular among the people in various periods and are different from the writing methods in calligraphy books.
After the development of Chinese characters into seal script, after comprehensive reorganization, the composition of the radicals of the characters has been basically fixed; from seal script to official script, and then to regular script, the form of the radicals has been further determined; in this way, the writing method of the characters has been specification. Characters that conform to the standard are traditional Chinese characters or regular characters, and characters that do not conform to the standard are common Chinese characters or vulgar characters.
Compared with the traditional Chinese characters, the common characters are characterized by changing strokes or radicals, and a few of them are newly created. Because many secular characters have fewer strokes than traditional Chinese characters and are easier to apply, they have been passed down for thousands of years. Some of them were used as simplified characters to replace the original traditional characters when Chinese characters were simplified. For example: /宝, /体, /grave, H/only, /progress, /accumulation, etc.
There are many popular calligraphy in inscriptions on stele inscriptions in the past dynasties. There were many inscriptions on some inscriptions in the Six Dynasties. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the number increased even more, and even influenced famous calligraphers. For example, there are many popular characters in the calligraphy works of Ouyang Xun and Yan Zhenqing in the Tang Dynasty: / Liu, / Jing, / Ming, / Damage, / Zhen, / Tuo, etc.
In the stereotypes of opera novels after the Song and Yuan Dynasties, some common characters were often used, and many of them are still used today.
In 1955, the "Chinese Character Simplification Plan" was promulgated, which designated some vulgar characters as regular characters and abolished a large number of vulgar characters, which played a positive role in the standardization of Chinese characters. . In this way, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for vulgar characters to appear in formal occasions. Basic introduction Chinese name: common character, common character pinyin: sú tǐ zì Difference: traditional character type: font definition, history, definition common character, or common character, refers to the main popular characters in various periods that are different from the writing method in the calligraphy book Folk popular fonts. After the development of Chinese characters into seal script, after comprehensive reorganization, the composition of the radicals of the characters has been basically fixed. From seal script to official script, and then to regular script, the form of the radicals was further determined. In this way, the writing method of characters will be standardized. Since Chinese characters are composed of meaning symbols, musical notes and symbols, the angle of selecting the meaning symbols varies from person to person, and the musical notes are different from the letters in Pinyin text. Therefore, the phenomenon of multiple shapes for one character abounds in the history of Chinese characters. . Many secular characters have fewer strokes than traditional characters and are easier to apply, so they have been passed down for thousands of years. Some of them were used as simplified characters to replace the original traditional characters when Chinese characters were simplified. History There are many popular calligraphy in inscriptions in ancient dynasties, including some inscriptions in the Six Dynasties. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the number increased even more, and even influenced famous calligraphers. For example, there are many vulgar characters in the calligraphy works of Ouyang Xun and Yan Zhenqing in the Tang Dynasty. The poet Lu Liuliang of the Ming Dynasty said in the annotation of the poem he gave to Huang Zongxi, "I like to use common characters to copy books, which can save half the time." This "common character" was the simplified Chinese character at that time. The stereotypes of opera novels after the Song and Yuan Dynasties often used some common characters, and many of them are still used today. In 1955, the "Chinese Character Simplification Plan" was promulgated, which designated some vulgar characters as traditional Chinese characters and abolished a large number of vulgar characters and variant characters, which played a positive role in standardizing Chinese characters. In this way, there are fewer and fewer opportunities for secular characters to appear in formal occasions.