Pine nuts originated in the Song Dynasty, but were established in the Ming Dynasty, so they are still called "Ming style" in Japan.

Songti is the most widely used font in the printing industry. According to the different shapes of characters, it can be divided into book songs and newspaper songs.

Songti is a printing font, which originated from the Song Dynasty when block printing was popular. The font is square, the strokes are horizontal and vertical, the thickness is clear, the edges and corners are sharp, rigorous, neat and even, and the strokes are regular, which makes people feel comfortable and eye-catching when reading.

In modern printing, it is mainly used for the text of books and periodicals or newspapers.

In the Song Dynasty, "culture and education were promoted, but military affairs were suppressed", and culture showed unprecedented prosperity. In Song Dynasty, the printing and publishing industry entered the golden age, block printing flourished, the book engraving center developed rapidly, and movable type printing was invented.

During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, a large number of Song editions were engraved, and the Song style was established in the Ming Dynasty. Song style is easy to write and engrave, and the font is beautiful and dignified, which adapts to the requirements of industrialized operation of printing and publishing industry and becomes a witness to the perfection of culture in Song Dynasty.

The combination of China's calligraphy and block printing produced Song characters. Therefore, Song Zi not only has the charm of China's calligraphy, but also has the charm of block printing and woodcut.

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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.

"Angular writing should be the biggest feature of Song Style. 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 elegance, rigidity and just-right changes of Song-style characters have attracted the love of future generations.

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