Guangdong Institute of Education was renamed Guangdong Second Normal University. There are two schemes for the name of the new school, and the final choice is the collection of Mao fonts. In 2004, Southern Medical University was restructured and renamed, and the hairstyle was also selected as a sample of the school name.
A careful person walked around the campus of colleges and universities in Guangdong and found that although many colleges and universities have different names, the word "university" is always similar. That's because the following fact may have been overlooked: In China, the names of so many schools are inscribed in Chairman Mao's font.
There are at least 10 schools in Guangdong, including South China University of Technology, South China Agricultural University, South China Normal University, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Southern Medical University, Guangdong Business School, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou Medical College and Guangdong Second Normal University (formerly Guangdong Institute of Education).
Key universities like to use the name of Mao Sports School.
How many colleges and universities in China adopt the name of Mao Sports School? Some people estimate that there are hundreds.
Let's look at these resounding names: Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University, Nanjing University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Wuhan University, Tianjin University, Nankai University, Beijing Normal University, Shandong University and Xi Jiaotong University.
According to statistics, among the top 10 universities in a university, 8 universities use Mao characters. Of course, not all school names are inscribed by Mao Zedong, but some are word collections.
Reason: The artistic value of hair body is outstanding.
In 2007, when Hebei University of Science and Technology chose Mao font as its school name, it thought that "Chairman Mao was the founder of the new China. His traditional calligraphy skills are profound, vigorous, full of strong cultural atmosphere, distinctive personality and high grade.
Mr. Jiang, a calligrapher with Mao style, believes that Mao style, as the most popular calligraphy style in contemporary society, combines hundreds of calligraphy specialties (such as Wang Xizhi and Yan Zhenqing) into one furnace, forming a unique popular calligraphy style.