Seal script recognition is to understand and distinguish seal characters.
“It is easy to write seal script but difficult to read it”, most people who practice seal script have this experience, and beginners are even more intimidated by seal script. In fact, although seal script is an ancient script, it is in the same vein as modern Chinese characters and is the source of modern Chinese characters. It does not exist in isolation and has rules to follow. It all depends on diligent study and progress despite difficulties. Of course, this requires mastering certain methods and approaches.
Learning seal script is a science and should never be done hastily. As long as you adhere to the correct method, mastering seal script is not difficult.
Methods for identifying seal characters
1. Learning to recognize seal characters requires a foundation. If you want to learn to recognize seal characters, you might as well buy a real seal script with a thousand-character text or a real cursive seal script with four-body thousand-character script. With it, it is easy to read and light to carry.
2. First understand and master the corresponding rules between the radicals of seal characters and the radicals of today's Chinese characters.
3. Identify similarities. That is, characters with similar seal characters (such as the components "Zhi" and "攵") or similar real characters (such as "Wei" and "Zhu") are put together for comparison and identification.
4. Collect special seal characters, such as father, tooth, flower, bird, crow, bi, geng, kang, yan, jing, xue, tou, etc. that cannot be identified by the radical correspondence rules. together to facilitate memorization.
5. Note that the same component may have different sealing methods in different parts of a character. For example, if the part "gu" is the left radical of a character (such as "desire") and the right radical of a character (such as "bath"), the seal writing methods are different. As for the component "Li" used as the left radical of a character (such as "SA") and as the upper part of a character (such as "Tong"), the seal writing methods are almost completely different.
Another example is the component "阝", which is derived from two completely different seal characters "霜" and "邑", two to one. In the seal characters, if you see that one of its parts is the seal character of "Fu", then it corresponds to today's left ear "阝"; if you see that one of its parts is the seal character of "邑", then it corresponds to Today's right ear is "swelling".
6. It is also a good choice to use the Internet to download pictures of seal characters as learning materials.
7. Seventh, if you want to learn to recognize more seal characters, you can check the scanned version of "Kangxi Dictionary" and the scanned version of "Shuowen Jiezi".