Seal script

Author: Hong Jun Tao
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Publish Date: 1998-07-01
Features:
1. The Compendium of Seal Script is an assembly of seal script characters written and carved by renowned calligraphers and seal carvers in China's history, including oracle bone script, bronze inscriptions, Shigu inscriptions, bamboo slips and silk documents, pottery inscriptions, brick and tile inscriptions, stele carvings, etc. It also serves as a dictionary to look up seal script characters using regular script, providing reference for calligraphy researchers, ancient artifact researchers, ancient script researchers, and readers interested in calligraphy.
2. This compendium collects famous calligraphic works and seal carvings of renowned calligraphers and seal carvers from the pre-Qin period to the modern era, selected from existing materials, categorized by characters, and printed with photographic copies to preserve the style and essence of the original works.
3. This compendium is arranged according to the Cihai radical lookup method, including over 4,590 regular script radicals and over 5,781 seal script variant characters. Below each regular script radical, there are over 130 variant characters (marked in square brackets) and over 2,320 simplified characters (marked in round brackets).
4. This compendium includes over 1,880 seal script oracle bone characters, over 9,350 bronze inscriptions, over 3,490 stele carvings, over 1,040 pottery and coin inscriptions, over 19,000 calligraphic works by calligraphers, and over 18,180 seal carvings by seal carvers. It features the calligraphic works of over 100 renowned calligraphers from various dynasties, such as Li Si of the Qin Dynasty, Li Yangbing of the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Zichang of the Yuan Dynasty, Li Dongyang and Wen Zhengming of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Shu, Deng Shifu, Wu Rangzhi, Yang Yizun, Xu Sangeng, and Zhao Ziqian of the Qing Dynasty, as well as Huang Shiling, Wu Changshuo, and Wang Fuan'an of the modern era. It also includes the seal carvings of over 300 renowned seal carvers, such as Wen Peng, He Zhen, Su Xuan, Zhao Huanguang, Wang Guan, Hu Ricong, Cheng Sui, Xu Rong, Xu Zhenmu of the Ming Dynasty, Ding Jing, Deng Shifu, Huang Yi, Xi Gang, Chen Hongshou, Zhao Zicheng, Wu Rangzhi, Xu Sangeng, and Zhao Ziqian of the Qing Dynasty, as well as Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Chen Shicheng, Wang Fuan'an, and Deng Sanmu of the modern era.
5. The order of seal script types in this compendium is arranged as follows: oracle bone script, bronze inscriptions, Shigu script, pottery script, coin script, alliance inscriptions, bamboo and silk documents, stele carvings, followed by calligraphic works, and finally ancient seals and the seals of Ming and Qing Dynasty seal carvers. The seal script characters are generally arranged chronologically, from top to bottom and from right to left, with larger characters aligned to the left. However, due to variations in font size, there are a few exceptions in layout. Each seal script character is annotated with the source of the object, the names of the calligrapher or seal carver, and consecutive numbers from the same object or the same calligrapher or seal carver are marked only below the last character.
6. The damages on the original seal script characters in this compendium are not heavily restored, and efforts are made to preserve their original state.
7. At the end of this compendium, there are appendices such as the Stroke Lookup Table, the Bibliography, and the Encoding Table of Referenced Objects, for reference.