The earliest form of Chinese calligraphy art is seal script. The main characteristics of seal script are smooth lines, round strokes, and neat arrangement. With the changes of the times, seal script is also constantly changing and developing. What I bring to you below is calligraphy fonts and seal scripts. I hope you like them. Appreciation of calligraphy fonts and seal scripts
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To learn calligraphy, do you need to learn seal script first?
In fact, what calligraphy style to learn first is a common question. Everyone has their own opinions.
Let’s take a look at Master Hong Yi’s two views on learning calligraphy first and seal script:
(1) You can study "Shuowen" by the way, and you can have some common sense about philology . Because every word has its origin and is not made up out of thin air. One stroke after another cannot be written casually. If you don’t learn seal script and study "Shuowen", you can’t understand the origin of calligraphy and writing? It can be said that you don’t know the characters! Therefore, if you start with seal script, not only will your writing improve, but it will also be very interesting. .
(2) After you can write seal characters, you can then learn regular script and write one stroke at a time, so you won’t make any mistakes. I once saw a manuscript copied by several students from Yangzhengyuan, and there were many wrong words. You know: it is very shameful to write the wrong word? Just like people who learn English, they cannot misspell a letter. If we misspell the word, how will others recognize it? It is even more unacceptable if we misspell our own Chinese characters. If we learn seal script first and then write regular script, we can avoid many mistakes. In addition, writing seal characters can also be the basis for writing official script, regular script, and running script. After learning seal script, it will be easy to write official script, regular script, and running script because seal script is the foundation of all kinds of writing.
If you want to write seal characters, you can first read books like "Shuowen". There is a Qing Dynasty philologist named Wu Da. Wu Da is a philologist from Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. He is good at ancient philology and has written many philology works such as "Shuowen Radicals", "Zi Shuo" and "Shuowen Gu Zhenbu". , quite innovative in calligraphy. "Shuowen Radicals" is indispensable. Because this book is very good and easy for beginners to learn, if you want to learn to write, it is best to study this book first.