Do you have to use a brush to write seal script on a stone?
Seal script is a general term for big seal script and small seal script. Dazhuan refers to Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Jinwen, Jinwen and Six Kingdoms, and retains the obvious features of ancient hieroglyphics. Xiao Zhuan, also known as "Qin Zhuan", is a common character in Qin State and a simplified font of Da Zhuan, which is characterized by uniform and neat glyphs and is easier to write than Wen Shu. In the development history of Chinese characters, it is the transition between seal script and official script. Understand the development history of seal script, and you will know more about the "function" of seal script. Judging from the calligraphy and painting works handed down from generation to generation, early (ancient) seal scripts include inscriptions, ritual inscriptions, bamboo carvings, wood carvings and so on. Before the Han Dynasty, it was an "official book". Since the Tang Dynasty, calligraphers have often used seal script to create calligraphy works, such as Li in the Tang Dynasty, Xu Kai in the Five Dynasties and Deng in the Qing Dynasty. "Grass seal script" is a kind of seal script written hastily, hence the name. It has the characteristics of simplifying structure and correcting strokes. Of course, it is best to write with a brush and a hard pen (including bamboo sticks and wooden sticks). In modern times, seal script is usually written with a brush. It is often said that some seal scripts have a "golden stone flavor", that is, they use a brush to write the flavor of "golden stone" seal cutting. If you write with a hard pen and master it well, it is easier to write works full of "golden stone flavor". Of course, writing seal script with brush and hard pen is not as fast as cursive script, especially cursive script, but it is not slower than official script, regular script, Wei Ti and running script. The writing speed of cursive script is much faster than that of official script, regular script and Wei Ti.