What are the works of Great Seal calligraphy?

1, Mao Gongding

The bronzes cast by Mao Gong in the late Western Zhou Dynasty were unearthed in Qishan, Shaanxi Province (now Qishan County, Baoji City) in the last years of the Qing Daoguang Dynasty, and were collected in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The inscription in Mao Gongding's house is 497 characters long, recording that Mao Gong sincerely offered advice to King Xuan of Zhou for the country.

It is known as "worthy of a book". Its calligraphy is a mature Western Zhou Dynasty Jin Wen style, strange and flying, the weather is muddy, the brushwork is round and vigorous, and the knot is long. It is an important historical material for the study of the political history of the late Western Zhou Dynasty.

2. Loose plate

It is named because of the inscription with the word "Sanshi". Some people think that the maker is a museum, also known as a museum. It is said that Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty was unearthed in Fengxiang, Shaanxi Province in the early years.

In 1935, "Sanshi Pan" was transferred to the National Palace Museum in Beiping along with other cultural relics of the Qing Palace, and it was moved south during the Anti-Japanese War, and is now stored in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

Sanshi plate, its inscription structure is ancient, the lines are round and condensed, the handwriting is sloppy and the glyph is flat, the body posture is on the side, it seems strange and vivid, and the end of the "grass seal" has been opened. Because of the horizontal trend and the center of gravity is low, it is more simple. Its sense of "casting" is very strong, showing a strong "golden taste", so it occupies an important position in the stele system.

3. White plate of the season

The Shang and Zhou dynasties were unearthed in Baoji in the late Qing Dynasty, and are now collected in the National Museum of China, which is the treasure of the town hall. The white plate of Yu Jizi is regarded as a gem in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Its arrangement and glyph treatment are obviously different from other Western Zhou inscriptions, but there is a certain pattern similar to that of Wu Chuwen of the Warring States period in the late Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

For example, it pays great attention to the individuality of each text.

The lines pay attention to the feeling of beauty and smoothness, while the glyphs pay attention to the pursuit of sparse and avoidance, and some money slips are deliberately elongated, creating a turbulent spatial effect. The refinement and finesse of the shape also surprised everyone with such a beautiful and elegant style in the Western Zhou Dynasty Jinwen.

Features of Seal Script:

1. Because of the shape of the idea.

The characteristic of the appreciation of seal calligraphy is first of all the intention of the form. There are a lot of pictographs of the big seal, there are many ways to express them, most of them belong to the meaning of the shape, such as horses, sheep, elephants, etc., and there are a lot of ways to write them, and the law of the distribution structure has not yet been regularized.

The radical shape and position of the oracle bone script are also very scattered, and the small seal after the unification of the script in the Qin Dynasty. After the text is organized, it tends to be more unified, but there are still a lot of graphic characters that are based on shape.

2. The body is positive and round.

The characteristics of seal calligraphy appreciation are also the positive potential of the body. The small seal shape should be relied on, to be correct, the horizontal painting is flattened, and the vertical painting must be straight, which is a strict and neat form of calligraphy. The small seal from the structure to the pen is mainly round, the outer contour of the word, due to the elongation of the center of the word, such as the middle, the day.

and forms a very natural oval shape.

The big seal is a Chinese character font commonly used in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is said to have been created by Boyi of the Xia Dynasty.

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Seal script, the penmanship is thin and straight, and there are many straight lines. There are square pens, round pens, and sharp pens, and there are more "hanging needles" in the hand.

The Great Seal refers to the Jinwen, Zhouwen, and Liuguo scripts, which preserve the obvious characteristics of ancient hieroglyphs.

The small seal is also called "Qin seal", the blind is the general text of the Qin State, the simplified font of the big seal, which is characterized by the uniform and neat shape, and the font is easier to write than the Zhou text.

Copying is a necessary stage and entry way to learn the art of calligraphy, and at the same time, it is the only means for calligraphers to learn and master calligraphy techniques throughout their lives.

At the same time, copying is also the only way to create calligraphy. Because the process of copying is the accumulation of the aesthetic value of the classic texts and the process of revising the original writing habits and making them develop to a higher level.