Word infinity. He is currently the artistic director of Han Tianheng Art Museum, a member of Xiling Printing Society, a special lecturer of the Seal Engraving Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Arts, an academician of the Central Academy of Painting of the Democratic Construction Association, an honorary president of the Qingtian County Stone Sculpture Technical School in Zhejiang Province, a member of the Shanghai Calligraphers Association, a member of the Shanghai Wu Changshuo Art Research Association, the secretary general and director of the Shanghai DONGyuan Jinshi Calligraphy and Painting Institute, a visiting professor of Fujian Business School, a director of the Shanghai Pudong Seal Engraving Creation Research Association, a painter of the Shanghai Xiangmei Painting Institute, and a curator of traditional culture promotion.
He is the jade of the mountain
——A preliminary study of the high ancient seal outside the territory
Han Huizhi / Wen
Seals appeared many years before the written word, and seals are one of the concrete manifestations of the emergence of private property in primitive society.
Primordial society appeared private property, and human beings began to have a desire for property rights, so the seal appeared. It's very simple, my seal is hit on an item, then this is my item.
On this basis, civilian seals appeared, whether it was the earliest geometric patterns or later more complex animal patterns, which were the main products of private property.
Limestone plane Indian West Asia, Haraf period (6000-5000 BC) radial lines
Cuneiform contract clay tablets during the Third Dynasty period of Your (2112-2004 BC) with multiple roll stamps
Seals outside of Chinese culture mainly have several large distribution areas: the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, the Two Rivers Valley, Asia Minor, the Indus Valley, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and once again continued to West Asia and Central Asia, roughly such a circulation vein, these seals, the early origin of even thousands of years earlier than the Chinese seal.
Around 7000 BC, seals originated in Syria and southwestern Anatolia, and according to the location and distribution of seals and seals unearthed in these areas, they were originally used to identify the ownership of personal goods, and then with the development of social structure, the application of seals gradually extended to trade and administration. At the same time, seals accompanied the cultural and trade exchanges between civilizations, and the use of seals gradually expanded to all parts of the world.
Talc roasted square plane print The "unicorn" and the Indus Valley script during the harappa maturation period (2100 BC - 1900 BC).
Chalcedony Tower-shaped Seal of the Two Rivers Valley, Neo-Babylonian Period (700-550 BC) Priesthood and Divine Emblem
In ancient Greece and Rome, the expression of Western sculptural sense on the seal was extremely important. During this period, many seals were produced, including ornaments with seal effects, such as rings, necklaces, earrings, which are the origin of European civilization, which is also a product of the westward transmission of seals from the Two Rivers Valley.
Later, with the Hellenization of the whole Mediterranean, Alexander the Great's Macedonian Crusade once again spread the Greek civilization to the east, although the empire lasted for a short time, but in this short period of time, the Greek civilization spread all the way to ancient India, so many ancient seals were established in East Asia and West Asia after the collapse of the Macedonian Empire, large and small warlord states, the most famous of which are Kushan and Sassanid.
Although it is a country founded by the Persians, but its culture imitates ancient Greece, so you can see a lot of seals imitating ancient Greece from the Guisan and Sassanid seals, and there are some special, similar to spherical or hemispherical seals, which we Chinese called seal beads, and many foreigners are the first to contact with this batch of seal beads, because it has the largest number of existence, and it is closest to China, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and a large number of excavations, and it is still the case.
Seal of Sassanid Persia
Silk Road copper seal
We have been exploring the junction of Chinese seal culture and West Asia and Central Asian seal culture, rather than purely collecting foreign seals, we are looking for things in cultural exchanges between China and the West, we do not support the West Wind East Classic, we do not emphasize the East Wind West Classic.
We must have a tolerant attitude in cultural research, understand that cultures will interact, you affect me, I affect you, and Eastern and Western cultures have always had a blending effect.
Greco-Roman deities
The Chinese seal has an advantage that Europe does not have. China has Chinese characters, the most important of which has a referential function, we say Yangchun Baixue, XiaLiba people, can contain a large meaning and scope. This is something that foreigners can't do, a foreign word is a word, not only the meaning of the word is small, but also the number of letters of the word is very large, so there is no very good way to use it.
Therefore, in the late period, his seal could only be developed into a pattern seal. Slowly, it changed from a relatively extensive civilian seal to a special class. As you can see, after the Middle Ages, seals were almost always used by authorities, such as churches, nobles, and commoners who no longer used seals.
In the 19th century, there was another great revival of the European seal, which we called the revival of neoclassicism. Because in the 19th century, there was a climax of exploration and archaeological excavations around the world, during this period they excavated a lot of ruins, such as ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Roman ruins, etc., in these excavations, they saw that there were so many splendid seal civilizations in ancient times, so in the 19th century also made a lot of imitations of these ancient seals, these things are also very brilliant, but this is already the flow of European seals.
"Fukuzawa Oriental"
The 7th Cross-Strait Young and Middle-Aged Seal Engraving Competition
Organizers
Xiling Printing Agency
Fujian Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles
Propaganda Department of Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee
United Front Work Department of Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee
Fujian Museum
Fujian Folk Writers Association
China Shoushan Stone Cultural Development Research Center of the Chinese Association of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Fuzhou Radio and Television Station
Organizers
Cultural Life Newspaper
Fuzhou Taijiang SDIC Group
Oriental Stone Art City
Co-organizers
Taiwan Printing Agency
Taiwan Chinese Printing Stone Art Collection Association
Taiwan Youshengchang Art Space
Han Tianheng Culture and Art Foundation
The Southern Printing Agency
Zhejiang Seal Engraving Art Research Institute
Shanghai Wu Changshuo Art Research Association
Fujian Calligraphers Association
Fujian Shoushan Stone Culture and Art Research Association
Shoushan Stone Museum of China
Fuzhou Shoushan Stone Industry Association
Fuzhou Qingqing Boyi Art Research Institute
Fuzhou City Traces Of Virtue Lacquer
(In no particular order)