Characteristics of seal script:
1. It is clumsy and changeable due to its shape and intention.
There are many pictographic characters in the seal script, and the expression methods are also ever-changing. The structural rules have not been regularized, so it is difficult to recognize. But most of them are based on shape or intention, and they look simple, elegant, and thought-provoking. Later, the small seal script became more uniform, but it still maintained many images and characters based on the shape and intention.
2. The curve of the pen is an arc, and the body is a positive circle.
The seal characters are all written with a center stroke, and the strokes are all curved. The structure is straight, the horizontal direction must be flat, and the vertical direction must be straight. The shape and size are uniform, and the body shape is mainly round, with circles within squares.
3. There is no left or right.
Basically, seal characters are composed of three strokes: dots, straight strokes, and arc strokes. The strokes are uniform in thickness, starting and ending, and there are no offsets or strokes.
The writing style of seal script is thin, strong and straight, with more curves and fewer straight lines. There are square pens, round pens, and pointed pens for starting the pen, and there are more "hanging needles" for the closing pen. Seal script generally consists of large seal script and small seal script. The large seal script has a thick and rich style, with a gorgeous and colorful structure; the small seal script has an even and neat shape, and the font is easier to write than Zhenwen.
The small seal characters are in a vertical shape, with strokes of uniform thickness, even circles, and neat arrangement. Those with a round and slightly thick pen are called "jade seals", and those with a thinner, rounder and straighter pen are called "iron seals".
The structure of Xiaozhuan is different from official script and regular script. It mainly has the following characteristics:
First, the font is rectangular, with one and a half characters in square regular script as the measure, and one character as the regular script. , the half-character is a vertical foot, and the approximate ratio is three to two
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The second is to tighten up and loosen down. The main part of most characters in Xiaozhuan is in the upper half, and the lower half is a telescopic hanging foot. Of course
There are also characters with no legs at the bottom. The main strokes are drawn in the lower part, and the upper part can be raised.
Third, the strokes are straight and horizontal, even in thickness. All horizontal and vertical strokes are equidistant and parallel. All strokes are square and have circles in them.
There are squares in the garden, making the rounding flexible. , full of fun.
Fourth is balanced symmetry, balanced spatial division, left, right, top and bottom symmetry. This is an important feature that distinguishes seal script from other calligraphy styles. There is single symmetry, there is partial symmetry of characters, and there is symmetry of left and right inclination of arc-shaped strokes