What are the characteristics of seal script, which is worth collecting?

Among all kinds of fonts, the brushwork of seal script is the simplest. Generally speaking, there are only two kinds of strokes, straight and arc, without skimming and pressing, with the same thickness and the same pen center. The tradition of China's calligraphy, which emphasizes centering with a pen, comes from seal script. The strokes of seal script are mainly round paintings, and many circles turn into squares. Roundness and fineness are the basic aesthetic characteristics of seal script strokes.

Basic strokes of seal script

(2) The font is slightly longer.

As the general name of early Chinese characters, seal script covers all kinds of fonts that appeared from Shang Dynasty to Qin Dynasty 100 years ago. During this period, Chinese characters were in a state of constant evolution, and there were still some pictographic factors in the big seal script, and the stippling and structure were not very stable. Seal script is a standard font, rectangular, rigorous in structure and pursuing symmetry. Generally speaking, seal script is slightly longer than official script and regular script that appeared later.

The seal script is rigorous in structure.

From the big seal script to the small seal script, the font has changed, the materials are different, and the arrangement and layout of seal script have also changed, tending to be neat. Although the font size, spacing and line spacing in Oracle Bone Inscriptions are different, they are basically vertical lines without horizontal columns. Later inscriptions on bronze inscriptions, Shi Guwen and bamboo slips were also arranged vertically. In terms of composition, seal script laid the basic pattern of vertical arrangement of Chinese characters. Moreover, there have been vertical lines and horizontal columns in the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty. But on the whole, due to the diversity of carrier materials and formation methods, the composition changes obviously. However, in the Qin dynasty, seal script was regular and vertical, slender and square in shape, with even strokes and neat layout.

Perfect composition

(4) Appreciation of works

Inscription on the whiteboard of Ji Guo Zi

Baipanming of Polygonum cuspidatum is a bronze ware in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty, with a caliber of 137.3 cm, a width of 86 cm, a belly depth of 37 cm and a weight of about 225 kg. It was unearthed in Baoji, Shaanxi Province in the Qing Dynasty and is now in the National Museum of China. According to the inscription, Zhou Wang rewarded Guo Jizi Bai for his victory. The strokes are slender and powerful, the font is rigorous and natural, the composition is generous, the word spacing and line spacing are large, the charm is unified from beginning to end, and it is beautiful and generous.

Beautiful and elegant

The above are the basic brushwork characteristics of seal script, which are helpful for beginners and worth collecting. This article has some shortcomings. I hope you can give me more advice. Thank you!