What's the difference between imitation song and song style?

Imitation of Song Dynasty has even strokes, including long, square and flat strokes, also known as imitation of Song Dynasty and imitation of Song characters. Imitation of Song Dynasty evolved from imitating the font of books in Song Dynasty. The strokes of Song Dynasty vary in thickness, generally thin horizontally and thick vertically, 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.

2, the development process is different.

Song style appeared after the Ming Dynasty, not the Song Dynasty.

Because the culture of the Song Dynasty is developed, and the prints of the Song Dynasty are exquisite and atmospheric, they have high collection value. Scholars in the Ming Dynasty, especially bibliophiles, spoke highly of the block prints of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty publishing circles often reprinted the Song Dynasty prints. However, in order to facilitate and reduce the cost, these Song Dynasty imitations often only engrave the word "Pikuo" instead of the original words of the Song Dynasty. Finally, a font specially used for printing was formed.

Later, when people were printing, they found that Song Ti occupied a larger area on the wooden board. If the words are carved too big, not only the sculptor will work hard, but also the board will be used a lot, so the words carved on the board will not be too big. However, on such a small reverse lettering, it is difficult to show the change, roundness and delicacy of handwriting. As you can imagine, it is of course the best choice.

In order to make the printed handwriting look more beautiful, and reduce the engraving time and consumables, people began to imitate the structure and brushwork of Song typeface after Du Nan, and changed it into a printed font with uniform strokes, slender and beautiful, and imitation of Song typeface appeared. From the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, "Song Imitation" style has always been the protagonist of printed fonts. This font was popular in the modern Republic of China, and most of our contemporary contacts were Song Style.

3, the frequency of use is different

Imitation Song Dynasty is one of the main fonts in Chinese, but it is not used as frequently as Song Dynasty and regular script. In fact, the imitation of Songti that we saw on the computer was processed by the font designer according to ancient works, and some details were deleted to make the font smoother, but it lost the charm of some font prototypes.

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Extended data:

Before the invention of printing, it was time-consuming, laborious and error-prone to copy a book word by word, and only one book could be written at a time. Once it is destroyed, it will disappear. The invention of block printing in Tang dynasty made books enter the era of printing and reproduction from manual copying. The development of printing fonts is closely related to printing technology, and Song Style is also produced with the development of block printing.

Engraving printing is first written on thin paper by professional writers, and then copied to the board, which is completed by sculptors. Most of the early carved fonts are close to handwriting. Later, in order to facilitate writing and carving, "there was a calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty who wrote the word Pi Guo, which was called Song". This kind of peel is a square character with horizontal light and straight weight, sharp edges and corners.

In the Ming Dynasty, during the period of Zheng De and Jiajing, the engraved version of the Song Dynasty was quite popular, including not only the content of the Song Dynasty version, but also the layout and font of the Song Dynasty version, so the engraved book was also called the "imitation version of the Song Dynasty". It was in this wind of "imitation of the Song Dynasty" that the Song style gradually formed.

In the 12th year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1673), the royal family ordered to supplement the general examination of documents published by the factory. In the preface, it is stipulated: "After that, when you carve a book, whatever you do is called Song Style, and regular script is called soft writing." From then on, this real Ming font was officially called Song Style.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-imitation song

Baidu Encyclopedia-Song Ti