{"id":112,"date":"2011-12-29T20:52:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T01:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scallender.info\/?page_id=112"},"modified":"2014-03-09T15:25:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T19:25:50","slug":"carving-the-chinese-seal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scallender.info\/?page_id=112","title":{"rendered":"Carving the Chinese Seal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Seal plays an important role in Chinese culture because the seal represents a personal signature of a person or organization.\u00a0 The seal once used often in Western society has almost disappeared in daily use but in the Asian community in particular Chinese Calligraphy and Painting, the seal still authenticates.<\/p>\n

Carving Chinese Seals is a special art within Chinese Calligraphy.\u00a0 In order to begin, you must already know how to write Chinese Calligraphy.\u00a0 The seal carver first writes the characters on the stone before proceeding to carve the seal.\u00a0 Most seals are usually done in either the seal style or official style of calligraphy.\u00a0 Kai-Shu or printed style may be used to write on the outside of the seal giving a description or signature of the seal carving calligrapher.\u00a0 One must use a mirror to write the Chinese characters on the slightly sanded surface of the seal.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the privilege of learning many things from Professor George Young.\u00a0 In fact anything I wanted to learn Professor would either teach me or lead me to the proper source, so I could absorb the information.\u00a0 Two things come to mind.\u00a0 I once asked him more about Chinese painting and how the Chinese stroke could be used in painting.\u00a0 He told me to get the book \u201cChinese Mustard Seed\u201d, which is the Chinese painting classic.\u00a0 He later introduced me to his friend, Mr. Gao who taught me Chinese painting for a short period of time while visiting New York from Taiwan.\u00a0 I also asked him about carving seals!\u00a0 I was already learning the seal style so he said he would talk to me at a later date.\u00a0 After coming back from a trip from Taiwan and Hong Kong, Professor Young gave me a book on seal carving.\u00a0 So I started by getting some carving knifes, a seal block for holding the seal and some blank seals to practice.<\/p>\n

Below is a great reference book for carving the Chinese seal:<\/p>\n

The title of the book is on the right in (Kai-Shu) printed style. I also included a few pages as a sample.<\/p>\n

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I recently was looking through my Chinese books and came upon a gift that Prof. Young brought me back from one of his trips.\u00a0 The book (seal calligraphy: how to carve with many examples) was written by his friend Mr. Wang Tse-heng, the number 2 seal maker in Taiwan during 1970-1990s.\u00a0 I have the first page and two additional pages.<\/p>\n

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