What is engraved on the seal of personal painting and calligraphy?

Personal calligraphy seals are generally engraved with surname, first name, or number and elegant name to show the source of the work. There are three kinds of calligraphy seals, namely name seal, leisure seal and appraisal seal. Among them, the leisure chapter can be divided into the first chapter, the side chapter, the corner chapter and the middle chapter. Seal, also called seal, was originally used to identify people. The seal is made of special stone, wood or scripture, and then painted with pigment. Calligraphers often need to sign after creating calligraphy works, so they gradually begin to pay attention to the role of seals.

Quoted from a poem by Xue.

It can be seen that seals are very important, especially real seals. The ancients should pay attention to etiquette when using seals. It is said that peers use their own seals, and young people should use famous seals for their elders, and vice versa. Leisure chapters are used to decorate the layout of calligraphy works. Generally, squares are not used, and circular, semi-circular, gourd-shaped and natural shapes are used as required. You can also make philosophical or expressive sentences to encourage others and yourself to learn. Seals, like calligraphy and painting, are used for collection after production and may be left to future generations.

Therefore, the seal on calligraphy works is not casually stamped, but has certain regulations, mainly to improve the artistic effect of the whole work. And at ordinary times, we should take the seal seriously, pay more attention to maintenance, and can't destroy the seal casually.