In the Tang Dynasty, Sun said in his Book of Music that "seal script is elegant and smooth". These five words can be said to be the golden needle of seal script, a famous epigram. Although "Wan" and "Tong" are just two words, they accurately reveal the basic strokes of the seal script pen and the requirements for the quality of the seal script strokes. Therefore, the writing of temporary seal script should be based on the Chinese style, and the Chinese style should be stable, so that the Chinese style can make the strokes round and powerful, and the strokes are smooth, which belongs to the authentic ancient method and style. Otherwise, it is very easy to write uninteresting. To break the dull way, the virtual spirit of the pen is the key. The strokes of seal script must be true and false, the strokes should be restrained and smooth, and the brushwork should be hidden in the strokes, so that the breath is magnificent and continuous. Zhu Hegang, a Qing Dynasty man, said: "If the pen is not empty, it is not round. Beauty is in harmony, and there is a division between gods and gods." This kind of virtual reality is also called Samadhi, which can be described as Samadhi. Generally speaking, solid pen refers to heavy, slow and thick pen; Virtual pen means that the pen is light, fast and dry. When using a pen, it is necessary to make the strokes (lines) of seal script have distinct rhythm, vivid rhythm and smooth charm. Therefore, the design of calligraphy seal cutting should be based on the combination of reality and reality, round and astringent, making lines vigorous, smooth, Gu Zhuo and illusory, thus showing the power of circle and forming artistic effects of hair, astringency, looseness and smoothness. In addition, in the process of copying, we should also pay attention to the interpenetration and change of line thickness, and we must not blindly seek uniformity.

Of course, in the initial stage of learning seal script, we must first understand the font and stroke order of seal script, and don't ignore it because it is simple. When you are proficient, you can turn your attention to using the pen and pay attention to the details of using the pen, such as strength, weakness, astringency and moistening. So that clinical research can move to a higher stage and finally complete the transition from form to spirit.

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After Qin Shihuang unified China, Xiao Zhuan became the official unified script. Small seal script is slender, symmetrical, even in strokes, dignified and beautiful. Since the Qin Dynasty, calligraphers in all previous dynasties have taken Qin Zhuan as the standard and slender vertical as their physical features. Li is a model of seal script writers in Tang Dynasty. Since the Tang Dynasty, there have been Xu Xuan in the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zhang Qianzhong and Yu Jingshi in the Song Dynasty. There were Zhao Mengfu, Zhou and Wu Sui in Yuan Dynasty, all of whom were famous for their seal script. In the Ming Dynasty, Xu Lin enjoyed a high reputation in the contemporary era. Since the mid-Qing Dynasty, Wang Shu, Ding Jing, Hong,, and even modern Luo Zhenyu, Zhang Linbing, and Wang Zhai have all adopted the scale of "Li Er" (Li Si, Li Yangbing)-writing in the middle, collecting more pens, stopping writing evenly, paying attention to symmetry, and having a square font. Although critics praised these famous seal writers for "staying away from the pre-Qin Dynasty" and "sentient participation in Zhong Ding", their works were more about expression-writing a few words with a pen, but they failed to break through the barriers of the former sages.

Xiao Man Tui 'an, an old man, thinks that Xiao Zhuan "must be able to write well and write flat to be a good character", which can be described as a hyphenation feature of seal script. Therefore, when learning seal script, it is appropriate to use a one-and-a-half-word script. From my personal experience, it is not easy to write a flat seal. First of all, we should practice excellent hand skills and learn more about the seal script of the Han tablet seal. At the same time, when learning calligraphy and seal cutting, we must be strict with ourselves with the standard that "the sparse place can lead the horse, but the dense place can't accommodate the needle". The knot can't be sparse, dense and dense, sparse is Shen Feng, dense is square, so you can think square, round and round, long and flat, and do whatever you want. In addition, the potential of glyphs should be considered. Generally speaking, gesture is an important part of font vividness. As far as the character potential of seal script is concerned, it is necessary to pursue dignity and elegance, and the proportion of font height and the ratio of font to vertical foot length must conform to certain restraint. In this way, we can stretch our ups and downs and look forward to it within a word, between words. Combining the central pen, oblique side combination, multi-side combination, hanging needle and hanging dew combination, and the decorative meaning of overlapping strokes can show a new look of seal script.