China seal cutting is an important part of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, which contains rich aesthetic implication of China, bears a heavy national cultural memory, has a broad mass base, and plays a unique and important role in promoting international cultural exchanges. In a sense, China seal cutting is a living fossil of the development and evolution of Chinese characters in China. Therefore, the inheritance and protection of China seal cutting is also the inheritance and protection of Chinese character culture.
On September 30th, 2009, China's seal cutting was successfully listed in the United Nations representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind and became a world cultural heritage. In 20 14, The Stone Carving was included in the representative extension project of national intangible cultural heritage. The successful declaration of the dual heritage of seal cutting provides important conditions for its inheritance, protection and development.
Three methods of seal cutting in China
1, sealing method
Seal method is the understanding of seal script, in fact, it is the calligraphy of seal character. Ancient seal, ancient seal of big seal, Chinese seal of Miao seal (a kind of seal script with distorted strokes), and useful books of flowers, birds and insects. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, seal script was widely used, and another kind of seal script was called 10-fold seal script, which folded the strokes evenly and filled the printed surface. In modern times, official script, cursive script and regular script were also used in printing. When engraving a seal, we must know the font, especially the seal script, and understand the origin of the font and the structural law of the text, so as to correctly combine the text on the printing surface and avoid typos.
Step 2 write a composition
Composition is to organize the overall layout according to the different shapes and sizes of printing surfaces and different printing materials. The arrangement and layout of seal script characters is the so-called separation of Zhu and Bu Bai. Seal shows its artistic charm in a small range with a few words, so it requires changeable words, colorful layout and artistry. The layout of seals can be roughly divided into artistic laws such as virtual and real density and balance between edges. Its users often use methods such as increase or decrease, flexion and extension, deviation and echo to deal with it.
3. Knife method
Knife technique, the technique of using a knife immediately, has been called thirteen knife methods by predecessors. In practice, the two methods are mainly cutting and punching. The lines carved by the cutting knife are concise, and the lines carved by the punching knife are smooth.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Seal Cutting.