What is the artistic status of calligraphy and seal cutting in ancient China?

Calligraphy and seal cutting are both elegant art forms with strong practicability in ancient China. They interact with other art forms, especially Chinese painting, and form an important category of ancient art in China. Calligraphy seal cutting takes Chinese characters as hieroglyphics, but when it becomes an art form, it can become a very abstract aesthetic form, especially calligraphy. Artists express their thoughts and feelings through the ups and downs of lines, which is a unique aesthetic expression in the cultural circle of Chinese characters led by China. The outstanding feature of this aesthetic form lies in its abstraction, focusing on expression rather than reproduction, and containing rich aesthetic implications. Calligraphy seal cutting is not only an art form in ancient China, but also an important form for literati to cultivate their temperament, cultivate their mind, place their arms on them and taste life, so it contains profound cultural significance. Seal cutting calligraphy has spread to Japan, South Korea and other countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, and it still has strong vitality in these countries. Since the beginning of this century, especially in the last ten years, calligraphy seal cutting has developed continuously and its influence has become increasingly extensive. The number of people engaged in it and the speed of its achievements are unparalleled in any previous era. In recent decades, more and more ancient Chinese characters have been unearthed, and bamboo slips and silk books from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Pre-Qin and Qin and Han Dynasties have become the objects of study. On the basis of inheriting the fine tradition of ancient calligraphy, many calligraphers and seal engravers have absorbed and borrowed many ideological trends and artistic forms, and made efforts to explore and create new ones. The theoretical research of calligraphy seal cutting is also expanding, which indicates that a new all-round prosperity period of calligraphy seal cutting is coming.