The development history of China characters is as follows: Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscription, big seal script, small seal script, official script, cursive script, regular script, imitation of Song dynasty and song style characters. In the Song Dynasty, writing reached its peak.

Song Dynasty originated in Song Dynasty, but it was established in Ming Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, "culture and education were promoted while military affairs were suppressed", and culture showed unprecedented prosperity. In Song Dynasty, the printing and publishing industry entered the golden age, block printing flourished, the book engraving center developed rapidly, and movable type printing was invented. During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, a large number of Song editions were engraved, and the Song style was established in the Ming Dynasty. Song style is easy to write and engrave, and the font is beautiful and dignified, which adapts to the requirements of industrialized operation of printing and publishing industry and becomes a witness to the perfection of culture in Song Dynasty.