The development of Yingui

Yin Gui was very simple at the beginning, and there were shops specializing in epigraphy and calligraphy. It is still a T-shaped silver laurel made of nanmu or mahogany, only 65,438+00 cm long and generally about 5 mm thick. But as soon as Yin Gui entered the hands of literati, he rose from a tool to a literary play. Chairman Mao's secretary, Tian Jiaying, is an appreciative collector. In his life, he had five seals made for him by the famous seal engraver Deng Lifu. The seal is packed in a brocade box with a swastika pattern, and there is a right-angled silver reed in it. The hard wood floor is engraved with inscriptions. From Yin He and India, people expect Yingui to be a set of original things, cleverly designed and very precious.

Literati like to study literary objects and carve their favorite words or personal poems on them to entertain themselves. Someone once collected a silver reed inscribed by the great calligrapher Zhao. Yin Gui sawed a rectangular nanmu at a right angle, like a kitchen knife, and carved the words "hook the string for the edge". That is to say, there is a right triangle between the two sides of a right angle, the short side is a hook and the long side is a strand. In ancient times, when measuring the height of the sun with a vertical pole, the sun shadow was a hook and the bamboo pole was a strand. Zhao skillfully used this point in "Leading Ghosts", and the literary interest jumped to the page. Yin Gui, also known as printing moment, gauge is a tool for drawing circles, and moment is a ruler for drawing right-angled squares and rectangles, which is more appropriate. But it's usually called a ghost. Maybe it's because some ghosts are made of circles and cut out a right angle. In Tianheng Printing, there is a picture of a stone corner with a small seal at the end, which is quite elegant. There are also two square copper circles. Divide the flat round copper into four parts, cut off a quarter, leave a right angle and carve it on the copper surface. It is timely to call it a ghost.