"Horizontal and vertical are the strength of character, and flying is the blood." Five thousand years ago, Cang Xie was ordered by the Yellow Emperor to create characters. After the characters were created, it rained and the ghosts cried at night. God knows what changes Cang Xie's creation will bring.
The emergence of Chinese characters has really brought the Chinese nation into a civilized era. The inheritance of Chinese characters in China has never been interrupted for thousands of years. The history of Chinese characters is the history of the Chinese nation for five thousand years, and every dust is attached to Chinese characters in every cycle. Chinese characters are the essence and soul of 5,000-year civilization.
However, there is a post-90 s guy who redesigned a brand-new image for Chinese characters that have been passed down for thousands of years. Even the People's Daily called him. This is Ye Tianyu.
Chinese character cultural circle
Although Chinese characters were invented by China for writing and recording, they are not only circulated in China. During the Han and Tang dynasties, many marginal countries with strong national strength came here to study culture, including Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and other countries.
Therefore, Chinese characters were brought back to different countries with these envoys, so Chinese characters have a long history of use in these neighboring countries.
Among them, the maintenance and dissemination of Japanese Chinese character culture is the best. There are more than 10,000 Chinese character designs in Japanese fonts, while there are only a few thousand in China. As the birthplace of Chinese characters, China is not as good as Japan, but this issue has never been taken seriously.
It was not until Ye Tianyu, a boy born in 1990s, came into contact with Chinese character design that he realized this situation and decided to create more interesting Chinese character design with his own design. However, the design of Chinese characters is not so simple. A set of Chinese character design will involve countless efforts and many attempts, but Ye Tianyu's idea is very firm.
Design for public service
Ye Tianyu graduated from Communication University of China. After graduation, he found a well-paid design job and was busy with various design schemes every day. However, although Ye Tianyu's work is substantial, his heart is becoming more and more confused.
He doesn't know why he wants to design. He just does his work step by step every day, but he never has a firm belief in himself. Until one day he saw a sentence that made him feel like he was awake. "Design is to serve the public, not just for a few powerful people."
It was this sentence that inspired him to design something that the public could use.
What is the design that the public can use? Ye Tianyu remembered the Chinese characters that everyone can't live without. Everyone uses Chinese characters every day. From poetry and songs to buying vinegar, clothing, food and shelter, no one can do without Chinese characters.
This is exactly what Ye Tianyu has been looking for. Since then, Ye Tianyu has formed an indissoluble bond with Chinese character design.
Determined, Ye Tianyu quit his job on 20 16 and started his own Chinese character design. His family and friends didn't understand his decision, but Ye Tianyu was desperate to start his own plan. Ye Tianyu was so obsessed with his own ideas and designs that he even forgot to eat, totally immersed in the profound culture of Chinese characters.
Infinite possibilities of Chinese characters
It is difficult to design a set of Chinese characters. First of all, according to the difference of each word, we should disassemble the structure and try again and again to design a suitable font, then draw it by hand, and finally code it into the font library.
Behind the appearance of a set of fonts is the countless efforts spent by designers. Ye Tianyu always carries a pen and paper with him to get inspiration anytime, anywhere, and designs fonts whenever he is inspired, even if he can't sleep in the middle of the night.
Everything comes to him who waits, Ye Tianyu has designed a wide range of exquisite fonts, such as symmetrical fonts, signboard fonts and Letun fonts. , and refer to many classic fonts of predecessors. Beauty and practicality coexist, and once it is launched, it is very popular. His "Juzhen Style" won the Excellence Award of the 8th Founder Award.
Ye Tianyu also designed moving Chinese characters, and designed each Chinese character as a moving image, each Chinese character can move according to its own meaning, which showed the characteristics of pictographic Chinese characters with both form and sound for 5,000 years, which made pictographic Chinese characters come alive in front of people and made people lament the exquisiteness of Chinese characters again.
People's Daily called him.
With the more and more successful design of Chinese characters in Ye Tianyu, piracy has gradually appeared. At one time, some people even openly took his designs for themselves. This situation makes Ye Tianyu, who has been focusing on design, very sad.
But Ye Tianyu's efforts will always be concerned. The authoritative media People's Daily reported on Ye Tianyu and called him. Ye Tianyu's design finally became widely known.
People's Daily reported that Ye Tianyu "talks about love with Chinese characters". It is really Ye Tianyu's sincere love for Chinese characters that made him design Chinese characters day after day for several years. It was also his love for Chinese characters that inspired his interest in generate.
Ye Tianyu's exploration of Chinese character design has never stopped, and his understanding of Chinese characters has become more and more profound. Chinese characters have been circulated for thousands of years, leaving countless precious fonts in this long time. Ye Tianyu browsed many ancient books and made beautiful fonts with China traditional culture and his own design.
He browsed all kinds of books and absorbed nutrition from thousands of years of culture. Song dynasty prints, Ming dynasty classics, and Han dynasty official script are not the sources of his inspiration. Ye Tianyu's Chinese characters are so wonderful because he is backed by a thousand-year-old Chinese character culture.
Chinese Characters For Five Thousand Years
Ye Tianyu's love for Chinese characters and his responsibility for the inheritance of Chinese characters make him shoulder the heavy responsibility of giving Chinese characters new life without hesitation. After several years of hard work, Ye Tianyu never changed his mind and made progress on the road of Chinese character design.
Although he has experienced setbacks and economic difficulties, Ye Tianyu always believes that the key to the inheritance of Chinese characters lies in the younger generation, so his design and innovation of Chinese characters will never stop.
Today, we can read the literature thousands of years ago and fully understand the artistic conception, all of which are endowed by Chinese characters. Haven't you noticed that many countries want to browse their own country's history only through text translation, because their culture has been dating for a long time, but Chinese character culture still has infinite vitality.
Chinese characters have been born with Chinese civilization for 5 thousand years and have long been rooted in our flesh and blood. Chinese characters, like a torch, led our ancestor out of the dark to the civilized world, bearing thousands of years of heavy history.
Countless classics and historical subsets are written with it, and countless deeds of emperors and generals are sung with it. Even ordinary people's daily necessities are inseparable from Chinese characters. Chinese characters live forever, and civilization lives forever.