The engraving of the Song Dynasty comes from people who are good at calligraphy.

The beauty of the Song version mainly lies in the font and layout. In fact, from the engraving technology of the Diamond Sutra engraved in the British Library in the ninth year of Tang Xiantong (868), printing is quite mature. Then, since there were folk woodcut books in the Tang Dynasty and official woodcut books represented by imperial academy in the Five Dynasties, why couldn't woodcut printing be widely used as a means of spreading literature in the Tang and Five Dynasties? There may be many reasons, one of which is that people are used to reading and writing-because written books are full of calligraphy art, and its aesthetic feeling makes people feel happy to read. And the initial contact with block printing, there will be a dull, dull feeling. In order to popularize engraving printing in Song Dynasty, we have to consider how to make people accept engraving printing from an aesthetic point of view, that is, it must be both practical and ornamental. Among them, calligraphy must be valued. After three climaxes of Han Dynasty, Southern and Northern Dynasties and Tang Dynasty, China's calligraphy art has been extremely prosperous in Song Dynasty. Judging from the famous products of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, almost all of them are from people who are good at calligraphy, and the styles of calligraphy are also different. Europe, Yu, Yan, Liu, Chu, etc. It is beautiful and varied, beautifully carved (both paper and ink are good, and the sculptor knows calligraphy), which is simply a work of art.