Chinese seal carving by which traditional techniques

Chinese seal carving by which traditional techniques of seal making.

Introduction of seals:

Used as a stationery printed on the document to indicate the identification or signing, generally seals will be dipped in pigment and then printed, not dipped in pigment, printed on a flat surface will show concave and convex is called the steel seals, some of them are printed on the wax or gunpowder lacquer, envelopes on the wax seals. Production materials include jade, metal, wood, stone and so on.

Seal identification:

The required identification of the seal, as long as the size of the seal with the known authenticity of the seal is the same size, the seal of the text of the text of the same position of the strokes, basically. A masterpiece of calligraphy and painting, its seal should also have a certain level of art. If the seal is poor, there is the possibility of forgery. The artistic level of the seal, mainly from the calligraphy, chapter, knife to identify, especially the text can not be wrong.

Introduction of seal carving:

Seal carving is a traditional art form, named after the ancient seals which were mostly made in seal script. It is the art of making seals by combining calligraphy and engraving (including chiseling and casting). As far as the production process is concerned, it refers to the engraving of patterns or characters designed on a flat surface on metal, stone, teeth, horns and other materials.

Historical Types of Seals:

1, Qin Seal

Qin Seal refers to the seal that was popular from the end of the Warring States period to the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, and the script used is called Qin Zhuan (秦篆). Look at its style and the amount of Qin and Han, Qin stone carvings and other text is very similar, all more than the ancient text of the Warring States easy to recognize. Qin seals are mostly white chiseled seals, often with "Tian" character grid, to the square is more, the size of the official seal used by low-level officials is about half of the general square official seal, was rectangular, for the "day" character grid.

2. Han official seal

Broadly speaking, it is a general term for official seals from Han to Wei and Jin dynasties. Compared with the Qin seal script, it is more neat and tidy, with a straight and square form and a majestic and dignified style. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, handicrafts were very developed, so the official seals of the Xinmang Era ("new" is the name of Wang Mang's dynasty) were especially beautiful and vivid, and the seal art of the Han Dynasty was at its peak, thus becoming a model for seal carvers to learn from.

3, Han private seal

Han private seal that is for the Han Dynasty, private seal, is the largest number of ancient seals, the richest form of a category. Not only different shapes, Zhu Bai are available, there are Zhu Bai together as a seal, or add the four spirits and other patterns as a decorative, and then there are multi-face seal, set of seal (mother and child seal), with hooks seal, and so on. In addition to the name of the seal, often with auspicious words, place of origin.