What is the origin of China fonts? Such as song style, bold type and so on.

The font of newspaper articles is generally "Song Ti". But, do you know its origin? If you want to know the origin of this font, you must first know the most notorious officials in China.

Who is the worst official in China? Maybe Qin Gui is the first choice. But when it comes to calligraphy, this man has influenced China's super masters for nearly a thousand years. Qin Gui is good at buttering up and writing beautifully, and is deeply loved by Song Huizong. He was appointed as the suggestion of Zuo Si of Yushitai, responsible for handling official documents between Yushitai yamen. During the official correspondence, Qin Gui found that these official documents from all over the country had different fonts and were very irregular, so he used his spare time to study Chinese characters. Out of obsequiousness, he deeply studied Evonne's calligraphy, and on the basis of imitating Evonne, he created a unique font, which was neat, unified and easy to learn. Then, he began to write the memorial with his new script, which attracted the attention of Hui Zong Evonne. Hui Zong ordered Qin Gui to send its writing mode to all parts of the country, requiring the whole country to write official documents according to the font of this mode. This reform measure was quickly popularized and inherited by later generations. This font is the "Song Style" that we use for printing now.

"Song Style" and "Imitation Song Style" come down in one continuous line with Huizong Zhao Ji's "Thin Gold Style". Some people say that Songti is a "thin gold" print. Nowadays, Song Style is a well-deserved theme in printed matter and computer fonts, which has made great contributions to the reading, writing, popularization and dissemination of Chinese characters. According to the convention of font naming, whoever creates a font will be named (such as Yan Zhenqing's Yan Ti; Liu Gongquan's Liu Ti and so on. If this font is not "Qin style", it should be called "Gui style". However, due to Qin Gui's traitor status, he didn't have a chance to name this font, but it was named Song Ti.

It has a history of more than 3,000 years from the earliest Shang dynasty characters. In such a long time, great changes have taken place in writing. At that time, Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jin Wen were not only simple symbols, but also the original meaning of words. Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins was written in Shang Dynasty. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is carved on tortoise shells and cattle bones. The ancients believed in divination before doing anything. They used sharp tools to dig holes in the turtle shell, but they didn't dig through. Then they burned the hole with fire, and cracks like "Bu" appeared on the tortoise shell. Judging good or ill luck according to the shape of the crack, and finally carving the problem near the omen, this is Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Although there are several ways to create characters in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, such as pictographic characters, fingering, knowing characters, pictophonetic characters and loanwords, which are relatively mature writing systems, the fonts are still not fixed, and the writing method of the same character is uncertain. For example, the word "prison" can be written as a cow "prison" on the cover of a treasure; It can also be written as a treasure cover with a sheep in it; Oracle Bone Inscriptions was carved with a knife, so the font is thinner and the strokes are harder.

The inscriptions on bronze in the Western Zhou Dynasty are the writings of the Zhou Dynasty. Bronze inscriptions are cast on bronzes. It seems that the font is more neat and the strokes are more rounded than Oracle Bone Inscriptions's. Now we know that the longest bronze inscription is about Mao in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

By the Warring States period, characters had also changed, and a word appeared in many different forms in different countries at that time. The characters we see in the Warring States period are not only cast on bronzes, carved on stones, but also written on bamboo slips; Even what is written on silk-what is written on silk is also called silk.

In 22 1 year BC, Qin Shihuang unified China and established the Qin Dynasty. He stipulated that the font based on Qin characters was called "Xiao Zhuan". The strokes of Xiao Zhuan are relatively fixed, and there are few variant characters, which simplifies the complicated fonts and makes the words linear.

Shortly after Qin Shihuang unified writing, a great change took place in the history of China writing. This is the change from seal script to official script. Although seal script is more neat than before, it is still not easy for ordinary people to write. It is said that a man named Cheng Miao has compiled a set of fonts, which is more convenient to write. This is an official script. Li Shu put the original round pen; When the strokes become horizontal and vertical, the pictographic meaning of early characters is not so obvious, which makes the characters become symbolic. The official script of Qin Dynasty was called Qin Li or Guli, and that of Han Dynasty was called Han Li or Jinli.

By the end of the Han dynasty, the form of writing had evolved from official script to the "model" book that we use now, also called real book. Write clearly when you write regular script. At the same time, there is a kind of font that can be scribbled quickly, that is "cursive script", and there is another kind called "running script". The font of running script is not as sloppy as cursive script, but it is not as neat as regular script. These three fonts have been used for 1000 years.