What's the difference between seal script and seal cutting?

Seal script, an ancient Chinese character. There are big seal and small seal. Zhuan Xu, formerly known as Wen Zhuan, originated in the late Zhou Dynasty. Xiao Zhuan, also called Qin Zhuan, refers to the characters used by Qin Shihuang to unify the characters, which were used in the Han Dynasty. Later generations called seal script, generally referring to small seal script. There are stone carvings such as Mount Tai, Langxie, Yishan and Huiji. , and countless Qin Liang, Qin Quan and imperial edicts. At that time, the writing was standardized, the capital of the Ministry had a fixed form and position, and its shape was a vertical rectangle, and its space was filled with strokes as much as possible.

Seal cutting is a unique seal cutting with artistic value in China. Because most ancient seals were named after seal script printing. After Qin Shihuang unified China, it was stipulated that the emperor should use the seal, the seal of ordinary people. Sealing materials include copper, gold, silver, iron, etc. Pyrophyllite and frozen stone in Qingtian stone were mostly used in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The main conditions of seal cutting are seal cutting, composition and knife cutting. Composition refers to the arrangement and layout of characters in seal script, that is, "dividing Zhu into white", which follows the artistic law of dense edges between reality and reality. Knife method refers to the difference in appearance and interest of knife marks caused by different knife methods. The ancients carved knives with pens, also called iron pens. It is an accessory part of seal cutting, and it has the name of edge payment and top payment.