General writing: seal script, chapter technique, knife technique.
Xu Rong said in "Shuo Zhuan": "The way to carve seals includes grammar, composition, brushwork, and knife skills... The seals of each dynasty should be the style of each dynasty, and their texts should not be mixed. , change the seal." Shen Ye also expressed the importance of knife skills, composition, and calligraphy in seal cutting creation. It can be seen that seal writing, composition and knife skills are closely related and inseparable in seal cutting creation, and can be called the three elements of seal cutting creation.
To learn seal cutting, you must first learn seal cutting. The most important method of sealing is seal script. After writing seal script well, you have mastered the unique structure and lines of seal script, and mastered the ability to shape this kind of text symbols into perfect shapes, which means you have solved the problem of seal script. At this point, everyone should understand: learning seal cutting requires writing seal script well. To be proficient in seal script requires extensive knowledge and knowledge, and one cannot make do with random strokes to form characters. Therefore, Zhu Jian said in the "Yin Jing": "Learning has no origin, and making do with radicals is a disease of seal script." Usually when learning seal script, "Shuowen" is the foundation. If you can understand "Shuowen", it is not bad. In a square inch, in a small space, the length, shortness, width, and narrowness of the seal text should be circled on the paper, and the seal text should be tested inside. If it can be increased, it will be increased, and if it is saved, it will be saved. For example, in the ancient seal seal, the calligraphy The changes vary, including adding strokes, subtracting strokes, borrowing and merging, shifting, etc. As we all know, the seal script is ancient and its composition is wonderful, but don’t lose sight of the ancient method by being ingenious. The texts used for printing should be drawn from a wide range of sources. Another example is that Zhao Zhiqian not only borrowed from ancient stele inscriptions, but also expanded the scope of reference to Warring States coins, imperial edicts, Han lanterns, Han mirrors, Han bricks, sealing mud, and stele statues from the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. Wherever there are words to learn from, they are all eclectic and comprehensive. For example, "Obtained after Shen Shuyong's Tongzhi era" is a stele of Sangong Mountain dedicated to Fa Hao; "Lingshou Hua Pavilion" is a stone carved on the cliff of Fa Haojun's opening of the Bao Xie Road. Huang Shiling mainly used Faji gold, and added casting based on Zhao Zhiqian's achievements. The printing was very coordinated and took a big step forward.