The characteristics of seal script are as follows:
1. It is difficult to recognize: there are many pictographic characters in Gu Zhuo's changeable seal script, and the expression methods are ever-changing, and the structural rules are not regular, so it is difficult to recognize. However, most of them are shaped by purpose or intention, which makes Gu Zhuo look elegant and intriguing. It was only in the later Xiao Zhuan that it tended to be unified, but it still kept a lot of images and words with a purpose.
2. Writing characteristics: Curved-brush-arc-body positive-potential circle seal characters are all center pens, all curved-brush-arc, with flat structure, horizontal and vertical, uniform body size, mainly round body, and a circle in the square. Chinese seal characters are basically composed of three strokes: point, straight and arc, and the starting and ending Tibetan front are uniform in thickness, and there is no left and right.
The evolution of seal script:
Oracle Bone Inscriptions is mainly the characters carved on the bones of tortoise shells and beasts when the Shang king divined. Because the Oracle bone is hard to carve, it is rough and simple. It was buried under the Yin Ruins with the demise of Shang Dynasty until it was rediscovered in 1899.
Bronze inscriptions, mainly in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, were carved on bronzes. Also called "Inscription", or "Zhong Dingwen". Because of its complicated historical background, it has different styles.
Shu Wen generally refers to the characters of the Zhou Dynasty other than the inscriptions on bronze. Brush, left in the bamboo slips of the Zhou Dynasty calligraphy also.
Shi Guwen, named after the pre-Qin characters left in the stone drum.
Xiao Zhuan, because of its clever strokes and correct fonts, has reached the top of seal script. Xiao Zhuan, because of its neatness and time-consuming writing, was replaced by official script.
Lishu is a font produced by quickly writing, disassembling the lines and strokes of previous Chinese characters into points, strokes, strokes, strokes and strokes, and writing them in a convenient position.