The Seal Theory was written by Zhu Jian.
The Essential Treatise on Seals is a calligraphy work compiled by Zhu Jian in the Ming Dynasty, with forty-four chapters. Seal began in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, flourished in the Han Dynasty, followed the Jin Dynasty, originated in the Six Dynasties, was abolished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and changed again in the Yuan Dynasty. Holding the sword requires the strength to lift a mountain and carry a cauldron, and the sword is like a god of wind, clouds, thunder and lightning.
Since the beginning of Xuanhe, the seals have been followed by Wang Shunbo, Yan Shuxia, Chao Keyi, Jiang Kui, Zhao Ziang, Wu Zixing, Yang Zongdao, Wang Zibing, Ye Jingxiu, Qian Shunju, Wu Simeng, Shen Runqing, Lang Shubao, and Zhu Boxheng , there are more than ten families who have composed the genealogy, and there are many people who have left pearls and gravels, and regard Lu as a fish. Today, the Gu family in Shanghai has a collection of bronze and jade seals, and the Xiang family in Jiahe has no less than 4,000 cubic meters of it.
In order to identify two of the ten seals from the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Wang Yannian, a native of She, combined the woodcuts composed by Wang Shunbo, Shen Runqing and others into the "Ji Gu Yin Sou". His contribution to the collection can be described as profound. However, if the jade is kept side by side and the genuine one cannot be distinguished from the fake, how can it be regarded as Dong Hu of the Yin family? Shiguwen is the first seal script in ancient and modern times, followed by Yishan Stele and Cursing Chuwen. The inscriptions on stelae, seals and other inscriptions on the Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han dynasties, as well as the inscriptions on inscriptions and stones, are still in existence. It is necessary to visit the old editions to view them.
Other books written by others and recent reprints of new editions have completely lost the ancient method and cannot be trusted. There are words such as "image" and "pretend" in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which have different meanings from today. They should not be used without further research. The Hengyue Monument of Dayu, the Bronze Plate Inscription of Bigan, the Teng Gong Tomb Monument, the Jizi Monument of Yanling, the Biluo Monument, and the Mengying Eighteen Styles are all absurd books and cannot be legalized.
About the author:
Zhu Jian, also known as Xiuneng and nicknamed Weichen, later changed his name to Wen, and was a native of Xiuning, Anhui Province. He is good at poetry, seal cutting, and seal cutting. In addition to learning from He Zhen's style, he also found his own way and became his own family. Chuang uses a short knife to chop and chop with great strength, which is the first of the Ding Jing Zhe School in the Qing Dynasty. Qin Cuan said: "Xiu Neng takes Zhao Fanfu's cursive seal as his ancestral line, establishes a separate branch, and becomes a family of his own. It has a heroic and extraordinary aura that is indelible, strange but not deviating from the right. It is like a change of seal."
< p> In the early Qing Dynasty, Zhou Lianggong said: "Since the rise of Zhuchen, the seals have returned to Huangshan. There are many people who succeeded Zhuchen, and I am obsessed with Zhu Xiuneng." It can be said that he is highly respected. He wrote a lot of works in his life, including Seal Sutra, Seal Essentials, Jun Ge Zang Seal, Xiuneng Seal Pu, Seal Book, etc.