This unique style was called shoujin ti (" thin gold characters "). The artist Chiang Hsun once wrote of an anecdote from his childhood, in which his father was worried that he was too deeply intrigued with the shoujin style of writing. The reason was because the Song dynasty collapsed during Hui Zong's reign, and his writing style was the" script of subjugation. "
宋徽宗的字，瘦長、鋒芒畢露，別具一格，俗稱「瘦金體」，畫家蔣勳曾為文回憶小時候，父親就擔心他過於沈迷瘦金體，原因是，宋徽宗是亡國之君，他的字便是所謂的亡國之字。