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What font does the seal used in traditional Chinese painting usually use?

The seal character used in the seal is Miao seal, also called Han seal. Carving with small seals is also common. The seals used in calligraphy and Chinese painting are all seal characters, either large or small.

Stamps are used as stationery printed on documents to indicate identity or signature. Generally, seals should be dyed with pigments before printing. Those that are not stained with pigment and will appear concave and convex after being printed on a flat surface are called steel seals, and some are wax prints printed on wax or wax or envelopes. Made of jade, metal, wood, stone, etc. Chinese seal is one of the representatives of Han traditional culture.

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Seal classification

1, roughly named seal, word seal, nickname seal, official seal, book seal, book seal, auspicious language seal, prose seal and Xiaoxing seal according to the contents of the seal.

2. According to the overall form of seals, there are mother-child overprint, hook printing, double-sided printing, five-sided and six-sided printing, Lian Zhuyin, flower printing and so on.

3. According to the shape of the printing surface, it is mainly square, but also rectangular, oval, gourd-shaped, irregular and so on. The seals of the clock in the painting are mainly the famous seal, the idle seal, the other seal, the official seal and the filial seal. There are also corner prints, mouth prints and edge prints, which are named according to the position of cymbals in the picture.