The most important thing to pay attention to when signing a calligraphy seal is white (yin) first and then red (yang). The introductory chapter is usually Yangwen.
The seal on the calligraphy work is an indispensable part of the calligraphy work. Without the seal, it would not be a complete calligraphy work. The seal was originally a token of trust and served as a confirmation. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, due to the emphasis on calligraphy, painting, inscriptions and signatures, calligraphers gradually realized the artistic role of seals and paid attention to playing this role in calligraphy works, so that the art of combining calligraphy and seal was formed.
The contrast between calligraphy and printing not only adds color to calligraphy works, enlivens the atmosphere, and has the effect of "icing on the cake", but can also adjust the focus, remedy deficiencies in layout, and stabilize and balance the work.
Signing and sealing calligraphy works can show solemnity and prevent forgery; stamping with elegant and meaningful leisure seals can also express the ambition and taste of the calligrapher. Therefore, calligraphers have always attached great importance to the use of seals, and even engraved them themselves, so that the calligraphy and seals can be organically combined to produce a more beautiful and stronger artistic appeal.
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The emergence and development of various art forms are closely related to the living environment and life content of a specific nation. In the evolution of Chinese culture, the art of seals and seal cutting reflects the ingenuity of our ancestors in discovering and creating beauty in life.
Chinese seals were originally used in pottery making. The ancients carved patterns on stone or pottery seals, stamped the imprints on wet mud, and then fired them into pottery. Such primitive pottery seals have been unearthed many times in Neolithic sites. After entering the Bronze Age, the material of seals also changed to copper.
The earliest existing bronze seals are three Shang Dynasty bronze seals that are said to have been unearthed from the Yin Ruins (now Anyang, Henan). The seals are a combination of patterns and words (or clan emblems).
Although academic circles are still debating the nature and use of these three Shang Dynasty bronze seals, archaeologists have discovered text imprints on Shang Dynasty pottery fragments in Yin Ruins in Anyang, as well as the discovery in Fufeng, Shaanxi Judging from the bronze pattern seals of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there should be no doubt that Chinese seals were produced in the Shang Dynasty.
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