Is there a difference between Song and Ming style?What s the difference?Where do the roots come from

The difference between Song and Ming is the difference between the old and new glyphs. Flipping through the "Xinhua Dictionary" or "Modern Chinese Dictionary", there is a list of the differences between the old and new glyphs, from which you can see the difference between the two.

The difference between the old and new glyphs is already there. The new glyphs are consistent with the writing habits, and the mainland generally uses the new glyphs, and with the implementation of the simplification reform of Chinese characters in the mainland, the difference between the old and new glyphs is becoming more and more obvious. Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan generally use the old glyphs, which are the same as the "Kangxi Dictionary", such as the traditional "Ming and New Ming Ti" used in the Windows system.

Among all the Founder fonts, the old glyph used by Founder Samsonite is Ming Ti. Although the old glyphs are not used in the Founder New Newspaper Song, each character is "loose inside and tight outside", which is the same as the Ming style. There is no difference between Ming and Song style, it's just whatever you want to call it.

However, with the implementation of the simplified reform of Chinese characters in the mainland, new glyphs were adopted, and only called "Song Ti", not "Ming Ti", so the difference between Song Ti and Ming Ti appeared Song Ti origin: Song Ti has been produced in the Song Dynasty, but it is not mature, and the Song Dynasty advocates imitation calligraphy fonts of Yan Ti, Liu Ti, and European Ti. Until the Ming Dynasty, due to economic factors, the Song style, which occupied a smaller layout, gradually became popular, and because of the lack of artistry of this font, it was criticized by the literati of the Ming Dynasty as "craftsman characters".

The Song style spread to Japan and was called the Ming Dynasty style by Japan. Today, it has become the mainstream printing font in the Chinese character cultural circle.

Today's version scholars define Song characters as: "horizontal and vertical, horizontal and vertical, the pen is angular and angular, the glyph is square, and the strokes are stiff." The edges and corners of the pen should be the biggest feature of the Song style, it is the engraving engravers in the long-term engraving process of the Tang Kai's strokes for inductive processing, the formation of a unique decorative feature, is the charm left by the carving knife, it not only retains the essential characteristics of Tang Kai, but it is more square than Tang Kai, the knife edge is very powerful.

In the process of traditional printing, because of the characteristics of printing ink and Chinese paper, coupled with pressure, when the members of the final printing are presented in front of us, the edges and corners of the Song character are slightly rounded and thick, which is very attractive, which inadvertently kneades the calligraphy flavor of the regular script and the knife carving flavor of the engraving plate together, forming the typical characteristics of the Song style. Therefore, learning calligraphy should be traced back to the Qin and Han dynasties, and the design of Song characters should be directly traced to the engraving knife flavor of Tang Kai and Song Ming, because that is the source of Song characters, and only the source of living water.

The evolution process of Song style characters is through the engraving printing technology, from calligraphy block letters to imitation Song style and then to Song style. But why is the imitation Song style, which was produced in the Tang and Song dynasties before the Song style, called the imitation Song style? It turned out that this was when China entered lead movable type printing.

In 1916, China's famous calligraphers and seal carvers Ding Fuzhi and Ding Shanzhi two brothers referred to the Northern Song Dynasty ancient carved rare book imitation production, at that time named "Juzhen imitation Song". After that, Shanghai Huafeng Mold Casting Printing Institute and Baisong Casting Printing Factory have a variety of imitation Song Dynasty styles. Today, the imitation Song style has become the hard pen orthography of our country.

To put it simply, Ming Ti is actually Song Ti, but the name is different, Song Ti is the name in Chinese mainland, and Ming Ti is the name of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Songti is a kind of Han jujube ridge cryptographic font, which is a font that appeared to adapt to printing. Its strokes have thick and thin changes, usually horizontal and vertical, with decorative parts at the end, and point, wild tung skimming, pinching, hook and other strokes have a tip stool hall. It is a serif font (serif), which is often used in the text layout of books, magazines, and newspapers.

There are differences: 1. The font size displayed in the body of Song and Song in Word is not the same.

Second, the way is different: Songti is the font name, which is used to designate the font of a paragraph of text as Songti; Songti (body) and Songti (title) are theme fonts, and the focus is actually on the body and title, depending on the theme chosen, the font will also change.

3. The words are the same.

Songti. The Song style has been produced in the Song Dynasty, but it is not mature, and the Song Dynasty advocates the imitation calligraphy font of Yan Ti, Liu Ti, and European Ti. Woodblock printing appeared in the Song Dynasty in China, and since Chinese books at that time were printed with two pages per page, rectangular wooden plates were used to engrave plates.

The wood board has a wood grain, which is generally horizontal, and the horizontal lines of the engraved characters are consistent with the wood grain, which is relatively strong; However, when the vertical lines of the characters are engraved, they are intersected with the wood grain, and they are easy to break. Therefore, the vertical lines of the font are thicker and the horizontal lines are thinner. Horizontal lines, even if they are stronger, tend to wear and tear at the ends, so the endpoints are thicker.

This produces a Songti glyph with vertical thickness and horizontal thinness, and a thick point at the end of the horizontal line.

2.Until the Ming Dynasty, due to economic factors, the Song style, which occupied a smaller layout, gradually became popular, and was criticized by the literati of the Ming Dynasty as a defeated state due to the lack of artistry of this font"Craftsman characters"。The Song style spread to Japan and was called the Ming Dynasty style by Japan.

Today, it has become the mainstream printing font in the Chinese character cultural circle.

3.After the introduction of modern printing technology to China, Chinese people have been accustomed to reading books printed in Song style for more than a thousand years, so modern lead characters also use Song style printing. Later, according to the Heiti and Italian scripts of Western characters, Heiti and Song-like lead characters were also created in Chinese character printing.

4.Song font is the most widely used font in the printing industry, according to the shape of the word, it is divided into book Song and newspaper Song. Song style is a printing font that originated in the Song Dynasty during engraving printing.

The shape of the Song character is square, the strokes are horizontal and vertical, the horizontal and vertical are thick, the edges and corners are clear, the structure is rigorous, neat and even, and there is a strong regularity of strokes, so that people have a comfortable and eye-catching feeling when reading. In modern printing, it is mainly used in the body part of books or newspapers.

5.In the Song Dynasty, "culture and education were revived, and military affairs were suppressed", and the culture showed an unprecedented prosperity scene. The printing and publishing industry entered the first era in the Song Dynasty, with the prosperity of engraving printing, the rapid development of the book engraving center, and the invention of movable type printing.

The Yuan and Ming Dynasty copied a large number of Song books, and the Song characters were established in the Ming Dynasty. The Song character is easy to write and engrave, and the font is beautiful and dignified, which adapts to the industry operation requirements of the printing and publishing industry, and becomes the witness of the cultural excellence of the Song Dynasty.

6.The combination of Chinese calligraphy and woodblock printing produced Song Ti characters, so Song Ti characters not only have the charm of Chinese calligraphy, but also have the charm of woodblock printing and woodblock knife engraving.

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The difference is that Ming characters are more inclined to be printed and look good, while Song characters are more suitable for our daily writing. In fact, the ** of the two fonts are the engraving of the Ming Dynasty, but the font has been improved in the mainland, Taiwan and Japan, so there is a difference now. First of all, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the people ** introduced the improved Xiuying style from Japan, and finally simplified to form the current Song style, and the original Ming Dynasty style developed into the Ming style in Taiwan.

1. Artificial beauty

Although both fonts are from the same school, the Ming style inherits the neatness of the Ming Dynasty engraving style, and it is also the most widely used font in the printing industry. The font combines Chinese calligraphy with a typographic aesthetic, and the font looksIt is square and neat, horizontal and vertical, with uniform edges and corners, symmetrical structure, and strong regularity, so that people will have a striking and clear feeling at a glance, so it is still used in the printing of modern books and periodicals, which has both modern simplicity and rich in the charm of ancient engraving.

Second, the natural beauty of the Song style

Song style is very similar to Taiwanese italics, which is more convenient for people's daily writing. The predecessor of Song style was the Song style created based on the new font, and then the Song style was developed.

First, Song and other fonts are also the masters we use now. The Song body looks horizontal and verticalThere will be small triangle decorations at the horizontal ends, and there are tip decorations on the strokes such as dots, apostrophes, and pinchs, which make the overall look sharpPeople don't feel very tired in their eyes after reading Song Ti for a long time.

We can't simply think that simplified Chinese characters are Song Ti and traditional Chinese characters are Ming Ti, the main difference between the two is the difference between the old and new fonts, the printing neat font is symmetrical and more mechanical is Ming Ti, and the font often has a small triangle and the tip of the decoration is Song Ti, we can also look through the "Xinhua Dictionary" of the old and new font comparison table to distinguish in detail.

We often use the most on the computer to send the physique, in fact, in fact, an ancient military advisor, Qin Hui invented and manufactured, the name of the character relative to the Song font, the writing is more casual and capricious, unlike the Song font is a board is upright.

Imitation Song, long imitation Imitation Song is square, long imitation is rectangular, the strokes are even, the pen and the pen are oblique, often used in the cover of ancient books and traditional packaging design and newspaper titles. According to their respective characteristics.

The commonly used Song characters and Ming characters** are all one. People look at new fonts and old fonts to distinguish them. But the difference is not much.

On the one hand, they are distinguished by the difference in the shape of their fonts, and on the other hand, they are distinguished by the difference in the horizontal folds and hooks in the process of writing.

Songti. Song style is a Chinese character font that appeared to adapt to printing. The strokes have thickness changes, and they are generally horizontal and vertical, with decorative parts at the end (i.e., "feet" or "serifs"), and strokes such as dots, apostrophes, pinchs, hooks, etc., have tips, which belong to the white body, and are often used in the text typesetting of books, magazines, and newspapers.

Because it was introduced to Japan from the Ming Dynasty, it is also known as the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. The Song style is a printed body born with it, which was produced in engraving and formed in the Ming Dynasty. In recent years, there have been rumors that Qin Hui created it, but there is no basis, there is no historical record, and there is no literature to support it.

In the existing literature, it can be clearly found that both the imitation Song and the Song style were formed in the bookstore. After the defeat of the Song Dynasty in the Jin Dynasty, he thought that he would reprint the books left in the Song Dynasty, and many publishers were established on the Pengbei Street in Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, including Chen Qi's Chen Zhai Book Shop. The books published by Chen Zhai Book Shop have a very distinctive font of regular and rotten simple books.

This font, which was imitated by later generations, is the so-called "imitation Song style" in modern times, and has become the basis of Song style.

It should be regular script, many people will think of Song style, in fact, Song style is a font suitable for engraving printing, and the establishment of the name of the shouting limb was later than the Song Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty to be perfected and matured.

In terms of font structure, regular script is similar to official script, but regular script has changed the way of writing the strokes of official script, and changed from a flat official script to a regular script that basically presents a square shape, that is, the so-called square character. Regular script is also known as the main book and the real book, which shows that the regular script is a formal book style that provides people to learn and use. The earliest regular script calligrapher was Zhong Xuan at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and from the works that have been handed down, there are still some remnants of the brushwork of Lishu.

The regular script has undergone a lot of changes in the period of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it is basically finalized after the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the regular script after the stereotype, the strokes and structure are all delicate and rigorous in Zheng Shidang, such as the work of the famous calligrapher Ouyang Xun in the Tang Dynasty is one of the models.

After the Chinese Wenzhou parallel character into the regular script stage, the glyph continues to be simplified, but the font has not changed much, as one of the four major inventions of our country's printing technology, is to use the regular script as the main font for printing, in the Song Dynasty engraved books, the regular script is artistic, written more regular and beautiful, called Song style, and later there is imitation of Song style characters and changes, called imitation Song style. The fonts used in the books and newspapers we read today are roughly variations of this style of regular script.