The method of identifying seal characters is as follows:
1. Learn to recognize all seal characters.
2. First understand and master the corresponding rules between the radicals of seal characters and the radicals of today's Chinese characters.
3. Identify similarities. That is, characters with similar seal script or real characters are put together for comparison and identification.
4. Collect special seal characters, such as father, tooth, flower, bird, crow, bi, geng, kang, yan, jing, xue, tou, etc., for easy memorization.
5. Note that the same component may have different sealing methods in different parts of a character.
6. It is also a good choice to use the Internet to download pictures of seal characters as learning materials.
Seal script is one of the ancient calligraphy styles of Chinese characters. It is also called seal script and is a general term for ancient characters. "The seal script is passed down, its physics is transmitted, and its application is endless." The ancients believed that the seal script was created by Cangjie, but this is actually untrustworthy. The creation of a text requires a long process of brewing and development, and cannot be completed by one person in a short period of time.
In a broad sense, seal script includes all calligraphy styles before official script and extensions, such as bronze inscriptions, stone drum inscriptions, ancient script of the Six Kingdoms, small seal script, Miao seal script, overlapping seal script, etc. In a narrow sense, it mainly refers to "big seal script" and "small seal script". The characters in the seal script are drawn in circles, and the structure follows the meaning of the six books. Therefore, Sun Guoting of the Tang Dynasty said: "The seal script is graceful and clear."
Allusion:
Since the Han Dynasty, most people believe that the large seal script was created by Taishi Zhen during the reign of King Xuan of Zhou (827 BC). For example, the Han Shu Yiwen Chronicle contains fifteen chapters of Shi Zhen, and Ban Gu notes: "Wang Xuan, Taishi of Zhou Dynasty, wrote fifteen big seal scripts." "The ancient text may be different, that is, Taishi Zhou added or modified the ancient text, so the large seal script is also called "Zhenwen". Therefore, later generations believe that Dazhuan is a form after ancient Chinese writing.