Who invented Song Ti?

Song Ti is a font that appeared in block printing in Ming Dynasty in China, not a personal font.

Songti is a Chinese font that seems suitable for printing. The strokes vary in thickness, generally divided into horizontal thin and vertical thick, with decorative parts at the end (namely "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 of books, magazines and newspapers.

Song Dynasty didn't appear until after the Ming Dynasty, so why is it called Song Dynasty? Originally, the culture of the Song Dynasty was at its peak, and the song carvings were exquisite and atmospheric, with high collection value. Scholars in the Ming Dynasty, especially bibliophiles, admired the "Song Block Edition", so the publishing circles in the Ming Dynasty often reprinted the Song Block Edition.

However, in order to facilitate and reduce the cost, these imitation Song editions of the Ming Dynasty often only engrave the word "Pikuo", instead of the rich Song style characters. Finally, a font specially used for printing was formed.

In the 12th year of Kangxi (A.D. 1673), it was stipulated in the preface of Jing 'an's "General Examination of Documents": "After that, when engraving books, all the styles are called Songti characters, and regular scripts are called soft texts". The name "Song Style" came from this.

The origin of song dynasty

Movable type printing appeared in the Song Dynasty in China. At that time, movable type fonts were all regular script. In Song Dynasty, there were three major producing areas in the printing industry: Zhejiang, Sichuan and Fujian, and the regular script fonts in these three areas had their own characteristics. Most fonts published in Zhejiang imitate Ou Yangxun's regular script, Sichuan's Yan Zhenqing's regular script and Fujian's Liu Gongquan's regular script.

After the Song Dynasty was defeated by the Jin Dynasty, in order to reprint the books left by the Northern Song Dynasty, many publishing houses (called "bookstores") were established on Pengbei Street in Lin 'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, including Chenzhai Bookstore in Chen Qi. The books published by Chenzhai Bookstore have distinctive regular script fonts. This kind of font, copied by later generations, is the so-called "imitation of Song Dynasty" in modern times, and it is also the basis of Song Dynasty.

Some books printed in Lin 'an were reprinted in the Ming Dynasty, but the fonts were changed: the horizontal paintings were linear, and the thickness changes were relatively fixed. In Mozi, published by 1553 (the thirty-second year of Jiajing), the foundation of song style has been formed. During the Wanli period, this font became popular because of the rapid increase in the number of periodicals, and became the song style now known.

Although Song Ti gradually became popular, it was criticized as a "craftsman figure" by scholars in the Ming Dynasty because of its lack of artistic changes in calligraphy. Song Dong spread to Japan and was called Ming Ti by Japan.

In Qing Dynasty, Song Dynasty was the main printing style, and Kangxi dictionary also used Song Dynasty. However, Kangxi also stipulated that the current version of the font should be renamed Song Style, which led to the dispute between "Ming Style" and "Song Style" in Chinese.

There is a popular saying that Songti characters were invented by Qin Gui, formerly known as Qinti characters. This statement has been mentioned in a series of media, such as the novel The Second Portrait published by 1988 and the children's encyclopedia The Integration of Everything published by199, but it is not true.

Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-Song Ti