1. Song style and regular script have different definitions.
Song style is a Chinese character font that appears to adapt to printing. The strokes vary in thickness, and they are generally horizontal and thin and vertical, with decorative parts at the end (that is, "feet" or "serif"), and strokes such as dots, strokes, strokes and hooks have sharp points, which belong to serif fonts and are often used for text typesetting in books, magazines and newspapers.
Regular script is also called block script, real script and official script. It gradually evolved from official script, becoming more simplified and horizontal and vertical. Ci Hai explains that it is "square in shape and straight in strokes, which can be used as a model". This kind of Chinese character font is correct, which is the modern popular handwritten orthographic Chinese character.
2. The font of Song style and regular script is different.
Song style is "thin horizontally and thick vertically". According to the existing woodcut forms of ancient books in China, this is related to the direction in which the woodcut is cut from the trunk: "The woodcut of ancient books is usually cut along the longitudinal direction of the trunk, that is, the horizontal strokes of the characters are in the same direction as the woodcut wood fibers, and it is not easy to be cut off. However, the vertical painting of the text is at right angles to the wood fiber of the engraving, which is relatively easy to be cut off, and the font of the Ming engraving is thin and thick.
Regular script is also called block script, real script and official script. Li Shu, which was founded by Cheng Miao, gradually evolved, becoming more simplified and horizontal. Ci Hai explains that it is "square in shape and straight in strokes, which can be used as a model." Hence the name regular script. It began at the end of the Han Dynasty, and has been popular in modern times.
The emergence of regular script closely follows han li's rules and regulations, and pursues the further development of physical beauty. In the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, the writing of Chinese characters gradually changed into "left", "point", "swept" (long left), "peck" (short left) and "mention".
Regular script is characterized by neat rules and is a model in fonts, so it is called regular script and has been used until modern times.
3. Song style and regular script were produced in different times
Song style has witnessed explosive growth of Buddhism in China since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the supply of Confucian classics has also increased day by day, so the profession of writing and handling was born, and this kind of calligraphy style adapted to rapid copying was also called "copying scripture style" by later generations
The source of engraving and printing fonts in the early Tang Dynasty was the copying scripture style in the Tang Dynasty. In the Five Dynasties, with the large-scale popularization of printing, the official gradually became the popularization and norm maker of block printing. The first block printing of China's classic book Jiujing was produced by the official in the Five Dynasties.
in the song dynasty, woodblock printing ushered in a golden age. However, at this time, the engraving font was not the Song style that was later known to everyone, but mostly entered the board with the famous fonts of the Tang Dynasty. Different regions have different fonts. Yan Zhenqing's colors are often used in Sichuan.
Regular script, which evolved from han li, can be divided into Wei Bei and Tang Kai according to the period. Wei Bei refers to the calligraphy style in Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, which can be said to be a transitional calligraphy style from official script to regular script. Zhong Zhishuai's Xuexuan Calligraphy says: "Wei Bei's calligraphy can be seen from the past in Han and Qin dynasties, while the following can be observed from Sui and Tang dynasties.
"Wei Bei often has the writing style of official script of Han Dynasty in it, so its regular script nature is not mature, but it is precisely because of this immaturity that a hundred flowers blossom, with a strange attitude, forming a unique beauty. Kang Youwei commented that it is" the ten beauties of Wei Bei ".
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-italics
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Song Ti.