1. There are various ways to express dates in paintings and calligraphy works of past dynasties. By knowing the date, we can grasp the styles and characteristics of calligraphers' works in different periods when reading inscriptions, and understand the era and historical background of a calligraphy work, which is helpful to improve our ability to appreciate calligraphy and painting.
2. Ancient painters and painters generally used the method of combining the emperor's year number with the official calendar and lunar calendar to record the year, month and day as needed. For example, Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting: "Yonghe is nine years old and ugly at the beginning of spring"; "Yonghe Nine Years" is the year number of the emperor, and "Guichou Year" is the year of the dry calendar. Another example is Shi Huizhan's "Buddha said that he was born": "Chen Taijian is eight years old, report it." .
3. Signature is divided into "single paragraph" and "double paragraph". If both the donor's name and the author's signature are "double", it is called "single", and if only the author's name is signed, it is called "single". Inscriptions, inscriptions, paintings, calligraphy, gifts, etc. Name, year, month or poem of the giver and recipient.
Precautions:
1. Inscription refers to the written content except the written content in calligraphy works. Inscription includes: the source of text content, the object of gift, the reason of creation, the time of creation, the author's name and font size, etc.
2. Single segment can be divided into long segment, short segment and poor segment.
3, the font of the inscription, generally speaking, no official seal, no regular script, no cursive script.
4. The above signature forms are vertical works. For banner's works, generally only the contribution fee is paid, not the contribution fee. Like vertical works, the beginning and end of the inscription cannot reach or exceed the upper and lower words of the text of the work.
5. The font of the signature must be smaller than the font of the text content, and don't pretend to be the owner.