1. Be horizontal and vertical, stand on the top of the world, give way to the side, avoid appropriately, tighten up and loosen down, and so on.

2. We should also follow the characteristics of imitating the Song Dynasty itself, not simply horizontal and vertical. This feature should be obtained by our own observation of the imitation of Songti characters. The specific method is to observe the imitation of Songti characters in newspapers and magazines, and remember the writing methods of basic strokes and radicals. These writing methods are immutable, and you can apply them when you remember them. There are only eight or nine basic strokes and few basic radicals. Take some time to remember them.

Imitation of Song Dynasty is a handsome and straight font with Song structure and regular script strokes. The strokes are horizontal and vertical, and are often used for typesetting subtitles, poems, notes, quotations, etc. It is also used for typesetting the text parts in some reading materials.

Imitation of Song Dynasty is more convenient and faster than Song Dynasty and black body, because as long as the font is calculated, you can write directly with a pen or brush (with a hard wolfram pen). On the other hand, imitation of Song pays attention to structural modeling, which is close to regular script. Practicing imitation of Song Dynasty is conducive to accurately mastering the basic structure of Chinese characters, and it is more convenient and quick to learn other fine arts fonts on this basis. Therefore, some comrades advocate that learning calligraphy should start with imitating the Song Dynasty, which is also very reasonable.

Imitation of Song Dynasty evolved from regular script, and the economy of China in Song Dynasty developed to a certain extent. Our ancestors first invented printing. In order to meet the needs of block printing, the engraver requires a more neat and standardized font than regular script. After continuous exploration, they have created a more standardized block font, which is very close to regular script, and there is not much difference between horizontal and vertical strokes. In the Ming Dynasty, this kind of seal cutting font developed more standardized, and became a slightly angular font, which was later called Old Song Style. At the beginning of the 20th century, Ding Fuzhi, Ding and others in Qiantang collected the engraving fonts of Song Dynasty and copied a printing movable type font. This font has the same thickness in horizontal and vertical directions, beautiful strokes, rectangular shape and exquisite and beautiful appearance.

Characteristics of imitation song style:

1. It has a regular script style, which makes the imitation song style more like calligraphy than the printing style it belongs to.

2. Each stroke is as thick as a song, not as thin and straight as a song.

3. Each stroke is the same thick, not as thin and straight as in Song Dynasty.