This is the difference between the old and new glyphs. New glyphs are those that are consistent with writing habits. Generally speaking, new hieroglyphs are used in Chinese mainland. With the reform of simplification of Chinese characters in Chinese mainland, the differences between the old and new glyphs become more and more obvious. Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Japan generally use old fonts, which are the same as Kangxi dictionaries, such as the traditional "Ming style new Ming style" used in WINDOWS system.
Among all the founder fonts, the old font used by Founder Samsonite is Ming style. Although the founder's new newspaper Song did not use the old font, every word was "loose inside and tight outside", just like that of the Ming Dynasty. There is no difference between Ming style and Song style. Call it whatever you want.
However, with the reform of simplified Chinese characters in Chinese mainland, new glyphs were adopted, and they were only called "Song Style", not "Ming Style", so the difference between Song Style and Ming Style was the origin of Song Style: Song Style appeared in the Song Dynasty, but it was not mature, and the Song Dynasty advocated imitating the styles of calligraphy fonts, such as Yan Style, Liu Style and European Style. Until the Ming Dynasty, due to economic factors, Song Ti, which occupied a small space, gradually became popular. Due to the lack of artistic changes, this font was criticized as a "craftsman-like figure" by the literati in the Ming Dynasty. Song Dong spread to Japan and was called Ming Ti by Japan. Nowadays, it has become the mainstream printing font in the cultural circle of Chinese characters.
Today, the printer's definition of Song Style is: "Horizontal and vertical, horizontal and thin and vertical, angular beginning and end, square font, blunt strokes." The angularity of starting and putting pen to paper should be the biggest feature of Songti. It is a unique decorative feature formed by sculptors in the long-term carving process, and it is the charm left by carving knives. It not only retains the essential features of Tang Kai, but also is more square and angular than Tang Kai. In the process of traditional printing, because of the characteristics of ink and China paper, as well as the pressure, when the finally printed components appear in front of us, the edges and corners of the Song Dynasty are slightly round and full, which is very attractive. Inadvertently, the calligraphy taste of regular script and the knife taste of seal cutting are mixed together, forming the typical characteristics of Song Dynasty. Therefore, the study of calligraphy can be traced back to Qin and Han Dynasties, and the design of Songti characters should catch up with the carving taste of Tang Kai and Song and Ming Dynasties, because that is the source of Songti characters, and only the source comes from flowing water.
The evolution process of Song Dynasty is from calligraphy printing to imitation Song Dynasty and then to Song Dynasty through block printing technology. But why is the imitation of Song that originated in the Tang and Song Dynasties before the Song Dynasty called imitation of Song Dynasty? It turned out that this was the time when China entered the lead movable type printing. 19 16 years, Ding Fuzhi and Ding, famous calligraphers and seal engravers in China, made a copy with reference to the rare ancient seal engraving in the Northern Song Dynasty, which was named "Ju Zhen Imitation Song Dynasty" at that time. Since then, Shanghai Huafeng Modeling Printing Research Institute and Baisong Movable Type Printing Factory have produced various imitation Song fonts. Today, imitation of Song Dynasty has become a hard-pen orthography in China.