Song-like characters appear around 19 16. The Qiantang people Ding Fuzhi and Ding Shan brothers imitated the font of European publications in the Northern Song Dynasty, and combined regular script strokes with the structure of the Song-style font frame to design a new printing font named "Juzhen Imitating Song Dynasty". This font has even strokes, sharp peaks, rigidity and softness, rigorous structure and quite European charm. But horizontal and vertical, the font is square and square, and the size is the same, which are the basic characteristics of the old Song characters.
The original imitation Song characters were all square, with the same height and width. In order to meet the needs of vertical and left lines and text annotation, Ding Fuzhi also designed a long imitation of Song characters, which are three high and two wide, slender, thin, hard and delicate. The words in brackets are lowercase, arranged two lines more than the text, which not only enriches the layout, but also has obvious differences from the text.
The birth and perfection of imitation Song coincided with the influx of western science and technology into China. The technical achievements of machinery, architecture, bridges, railways and other majors need a large number of design drawings to express, and imitation of Song Dynasty has become the first choice for writing Chinese characters on drawings.
The imitation of characters in Song Dynasty is easy to write with a pen, and its dignified, neat statutes and strict norms undoubtedly express the content of characters, further highlighting the seriousness, scientificity and authority of technological achievements.
As the name implies, imitation of Song Dynasty is changed from Song Style, which has the flavor of regular script, and the strokes are horizontal and vertical. The horizontal stroke is determined by the left, lower, right and upper oblique, with a height of about 3 degrees. It has a stroke of beginning, end and turn, and the point, stroke, hook and tip are elongated.
The figures are slender, neat and beautiful, well-proportioned, with straight strokes, ups and downs, horizontal and vertical, uniform thickness and even intervals. Paintings, poems, books and periodicals, packaging and sample instructions often imitate physical printing.
After the invention of printing, in order to meet the needs of printing, especially the printing of books and periodicals, the characters gradually developed in the direction suitable for printing plate engraving, and a horizontal, vertical and square printing font-Song Style appeared. Song Dynasty originated from the golden age of block printing ── Song Dynasty, and was shaped in the Ming Dynasty, so the Japanese called it "Ming Style". With the development of cultural undertakings, Long song, Pingge, Imitation of Song Dynasty and many other variants have been derived on the basis of Songti characters for hundreds of years. These new fonts were born to meet the needs of block printing and traditional movable type printing. After the introduction of modern western printing, under the influence of western fonts, many new fonts appeared, such as bold and artistic fonts. However, because Song Ti is suitable for printing lettering and people's visual requirements when reading, it has been used to this day and is the main font used in publishing and printing. Song Ti is designated by the state as the standard font for mechanical drawing, the font used by Chinese typewriters and the main font used by computers. If it is not specifically mentioned, who knows it will be related to Qin Gui? It seems that from ancient times to today, character is more important than books!