We read the seals of Ding Jing and Jiang Ren earlier, mentioned a term called "Ming ren habits", saying that the four families in the early days of the Zhejiang school were important Indians who opposed the "Ming people's habits" in the early days of the Zhejiang school, and the early days of the Zhejiang school were also an important period for the art of seal engraving against the "Ming people's habits", so some Indian friends left a message asking what is the "Ming habits", and this article is said by reading Jiang Ren's side of "Changhua Huli":
(Jiang Ren's "Changhua HuLi" and its side paragraphs)
First solve what is the "habit of the ming people".
The so-called "Ming people's habits" refer to the typical habits of the negative side of seal engraving accumulated by the Ming Dynasty Indians in the creation of seal carving, such as excessive curiosity in the grammar of calligraphy and seal law, and arbitrarily changing the glyphs, resulting in a large number of vulgar characters and black characters; the common diseases such as weak, loose, thin, dull, contrived, and curious in the aspect of the chapter; there are problems such as excessive carving and scraping in the knife method. These are all manifestations of the "habits of the Ming people".
For example, mr. Li Gangtian pointed out the example of the seal:
("Ming habits" in the seal law)
These three-party seals are the "Ming people's habits" in the calligraphy and seal method: the "Shi Shang Clan" of the first party Liang Qianqiu, "the seal method is neither a small seal nor a golden text, the printing surface is not Han style nor an ancient seal, and it is all kinds of clever decorations", such as the printing of "folk crafts"; the second party Wu Yuan's "Zhi Yi Zhai", the "Zhai" character uses a large seal structure, the "One" character is written in a vulgar way, and the "Zhi" character belongs to the wild fox Zen and so on. The third party Hu Zhengyan's "Qishen Jingle", the seal used in it is "not ancient and not modern, not donkey and not horse, it is really a bit of a ghost drawing." For beginners, to avoid the "Ming habits" in the orthography and seal law, the way is to learn the "Shuowen", check the dictionary more when encountering characters, and seek its correct writing in the Jiajin script, the Warring States script, and the Qin and Han scripts, and truly achieve the "essence of the six books into the gods".
Another example is the example given by Mr. Gu Songzhang:
("Ming Habits" in the Chapter Law)
These six-sided seals belong to the "Ming people's habits" in the chapter law: the first two parties are "the world is short and often mean" and "a belly is not appropriate" are loose representatives, there is no intentional connection between the words, "there is no special concept in the chapter, procrastination, like a scattered sand." The middle two parties are "not infected by common feelings to be able to speak of people" and "Shiraishi Qingquan sneering people", although they have profound skills and exquisite carving, they are obviously dull, but the rules are too "stylized, too much pursuit of symmetry, do not talk about change, and eventually fall into the disadvantages of dullness." The latter two parties, "Red Heart Exhausted as Confidant" and "Idle in the Heart of the White Crane", belong to the works of hunting curiosity, the problem is that it does not meet the aesthetic standards of seal engraving art, and the form completely pursues novelty. For newcomers, the best way to avoid the "Ming people's habits" in terms of chapters and methods is to copy classic works and cultivate their own comprehensive cultivation, so as to improve the aesthetic level of seal engraving.
As for the "Ming ren habits" of the knife method, there is no way to give an example here, fortunately, the "Ming ren habits" in the knife method mostly appear in Seiko skilled hands, and for beginners, there is no impact of "habits".
Speaking of the "Changhua Huli" square seal.
(Changhua Huli)
The four characters on the printing surface of this square seal are "Changhua Huli", and the "Printing Wind Series" of Chongqing Publishing House is marked as "Changhua Huding", which is wrong. Hu Li, Zi RunTang, No. 3 Bamboo, Zhejiang Fuyang People, Gong Shan Shui, Jing Seal Carving, Jiang Ren contemporaries, "Guangyin Ren Biography" is contained. Moreover, the "Ding" character seal method is obviously different from the "li" character.
(Side section)
This side is printed with a long model, Jiang Ren likes to carve a long model, and the long version of this party print is:
Changhua Hu Li wrote the hairpin wat. Yu You Sanzhu Xiucai, a young man who has studied the ancients, looks down on the Thefa alone, and is particularly proficient in appreciation of paintings, books, and poems. Collect the Golden Stone script since the Qin, Han, Tang and Song Dynasties, the inscription is dialectical and insightful, and Xue Shanggong and Huang Bosi are also first-class people. Overseas Chinese live in Meidong Lane of the South Lake, the most secluded place in the north of the city, water and wood are misty, the clouds are stacked, the three bamboo retreats are swept away, the tea ding pen bed, the day and the two or three dead people of the generation are dusty, disdainful of the neighbors. This spring occasionally read the city, get the old stone genus to give the seal, will give the Battle of Huainan, follow the half-year, there is nothing to do in the brigade, and the letter is sent here. Drumming and thundering doors, chatting about money and belly. Qianlong Jia Afternoon Autumn August Twenty-six days in the hands of Jiang Renbai, the master of the Xishan Courtyard.
There are two places in the middle that need to be said: 1. Because Hu Li is also a seal carver, Jiang Ren will have the sayings of "representing the hairpin wat" and "bugu leimen". "Hairpin" refers to the crown hairpin and the bracelet used in the upper dynasty. Referring to the ministry; Leimen Bugu: bu meng's drum; Leimen: ancient huijian zhejiang Shaoxing city gate name, because the city gate hangs a big drum, it is said that the sound is like thunder, the thunder gate drum, Luoyang can be heard, so it is called "Leimen", the drum made of cloth and the drum of Leimen is huge, so there is an idiom of "Bugu Leimen", allusion from the "Book of Han, Wang Zun Biography", figuratively showing off skills in front of the master, which is of course Jiang Ren's self-effacing words; 2, Xue Shanggong and Huang Bosi are all Song people in the southeast, the former is a jinshiologist, the latter is a calligrapher, They are all models of literati of this generation.
This square seal, at first glance, will feel messy and loose. The reason is simple, because the four characters on the printing surface have only very few horizontal and vertical lines, so the stability of this square seal method is lacking, as shown in the figure:
(horizontal and vertical lines)
The text in this square seal does not use a seal, but uses a deformed or processed small seal, and the small seal line in this square seal adds more arcs and curves, and adds more instability.
However, if you look closely (you must look carefully to feel this way), this square seal is extremely stable, because the author arranges a large number of lines for "edge" treatment to increase the stability of each word with the help of horizontal and vertical borders.
Moreover, the overall sense of this square seal is very strong, and for the sake of the overall sense, the author has made a lot of arrangements:
1. Diagonal echo. The upper part of the "Chang" character "Day" and the upper part of the "Chestnut" character form a similar pattern diagonal echo, because both places are circular closed figures, thus forming a "similar shape" echo.
(Diagonal similarity echo)
2. The connection between words and words. In this seal, the characters "Chang" and "Hu" are horizontally linked, the characters "Chang" are vertically linked to the characters "Hua", and even the diagonal characters of "Hua" and the characters of "Hu" are also linked. As shown in the figure:
(Word-to-word connection)
3. Common text components. The most ingenious design of this square seal is the common text component of the words "Hu" and "Li", as shown in the picture:
(Shared parts of Hu and Li)
The two strokes on the left side of the "Moon" part of the Hu character were used by the author to use the method of "pen breaking the meaning of the connection", so that it is composed of both the "Hu" character and the "li" character, and this method of "common components" greatly enhances the unity of the entire printing surface.
In fact, the lines of this square seal, the old and spicy texture of the line, are also worthy of attention.
The calligraphy and seal law have a source, the chapter method has ingenuity and conforms to the aesthetics of seal carving, and the knife method emphasizes simplicity and does not do anything to carve, these are the aesthetic choices of the "Zhejiang School" masters to fight against the "Ming habits". Most of the works of famous artists, when we read the print, we often have such a feeling: at first glance, we don't feel how, carefully examine, but find a lot of details, the treatment done by famous artists, indescribably exquisite.
([Pudding Reading] No. 100, some pictures from the Internet)