What is seal cutting? What's the smell of stone? What are the four masters of Shanghai School in the late Qing Dynasty?

Seal cutting is the art of combining calligraphy (mainly seal script) with seal cutting (including chiseling and casting) to make seals. It is a unique art form of Chinese characters with a history of more than 3700 years.

Jin: It refers to the characters on bronze wares, also called.

Stone: refers to engraving on a stone.

Stone flavor means that the engraved seal has the flavor of bronze inscriptions and stone carvings.

Wu Changshuo, together with Ren Bonian, Zhao and Xu Gu, is called "the four masters of Shanghai School in the late Qing Dynasty".