Witty words; Punchline
Every kind of calligraphy in China has its own history, and the development of seal script is closely related to the development of ancient Chinese characters. It is the first of the five calligraphy styles, and it is an independent and unique calligraphy style in calligraphy art.
Classical explanation
Nowadays, although seal script has lost its dominant position in the application of characters, its position is still very important because it is in the period of the origin and application of pre-calligraphy characters, which is directly related to the study of ancient civilization in China and the major issue of tracing back history. This kind of calligraphy has undergone many changes in the historical development of more than two thousand years, and its characteristics and beautiful performance in calligraphy run through the whole history of calligraphy. As the lifeblood of cultural heritage, it plays an irreplaceable role and research value in archaeology, text research, philosophy, aesthetics and human sociology.
Chinese characters have a long history and various forms. At the stage of ancient Chinese characters, there have been different opinions on the demarcation of seal script. Generally speaking, in the seal script, the characters before Qin Dynasty are called "Da Zhuan" and the characters after Qin Dynasty are called "Xiao Zhuan", which is a relatively broad statement. In fact, after China discovered Wen Tao, the earliest written materials recorded in Chinese characters can be said to be Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which means that Oracle Bone Inscriptions should be regarded as a kind of calligraphy alone. Secondly, the characters on bronzes, that is, "Bronze Inscriptions", were used in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the six countries used ancient prose, which further developed into Qin Xiaozhuan. These different viewpoints in the development of Chinese characters involve a lot of knowledge of ancient calligraphy in China. For the beginners of seal script, considering the introduction of seal script writing, they only need to know the main characters of seal script and the development of seal script in the evolution period, and take seal script as the main learning object and gradually understand it from the shallow to the deep.