The challenge of square characters

But this conclusion faces new challenges. After research, two scholars of nanyang normal University found that Chinese characters are not square characters, but "inside the outer circle", and found that this "inside the outer circle" is surprisingly consistent with the golden section of the area in numbers. A few days ago, their Fiona Fang (oval) checkered sticker invented according to Fiona Fang's theory won the "design patent" of China National Intellectual Property Administration.

Han Lianwu, an associate researcher at nanyang normal University, and Fu Junjian, an assistant researcher who obtained this invention patent, believe that the evolution of Chinese characters has gone through several stages: Oracle Bone Inscriptions, seal script, official script, regular script and running script. Two scholars have studied the similarity characteristics of * * * in each stage, and found that Chinese characters are divided into two layers, with dense strokes in the inner layer and sparse strokes in the outer layer, and the shape outline is irregular polygon (very few are square). If multiple characters in a certain script are superimposed together, the result is: the outer layer of seal script is vertical ellipse and the inner layer is vertical rectangle; The outer layer of Lishu is a horizontal ellipse and the inner layer is a horizontal rectangle; The outer layer of regular script and running script is Fiona Fang, and the inner layer is square. It shows that Chinese characters are not square at every stage of evolution.