Literati and seals, or to be precise, seals and literati have a close relationship, literati make good use of pens, and Indians must dance knives, which sounds as if they are one article and one weapon, but in fact, knives and pens are the same thing.
Mr. Lu Xun's self-use seal: Rong Ma Shusheng
As a generation of literary heroes, Mr. Lu Xun is not only a pioneer advocate of modern literature, but also a senior art researcher. He once wrote the preface to the seal engraving work "The Seal of the Moth" for Du Zeqing, a Shaoxing indian, and explained the legend, origin, development and aesthetic value of the seal in only 400 words. It can be seen that although he did not have many engravings, he had a deep artistic foundation. When he was a teenager, because his uncle Zhou Qinhou studied seal engraving and heard about it, he learned the skill of engraving. In 1899, when Lu Xun was studying in Nanjing, he had engraved seals such as "Rong Ma Shusheng", "Article Mistaking Me", "Xia Jiansheng" and so on.
"The Seal of the Metamorphosis"
Lu Xun's seals are mostly stone, but also crystal, tooth horns, jade and wood. Seals come in all shapes and sizes, including round, oval, rectangular, square, natural, and so on. The inscription has italics, grass, affiliation, and seals, of which the seal body accounts for the majority. Some of these seals were carved by Lu Xun, and some were given away by others on their own initiative, most of which were the works of some famous seal engravers at that time.
Mr. Zheng Yimei, an expert in literature and history and a former master, wrote in his posthumous manuscript: "Lu Xun's commonly used famous seals were engraved by the Xiling Printing Society, and nineteen were carved by the hands of Dun Lifu. In addition, Chen Shizeng, Zhang Yuecheng, Liu Shudu, Qiao Dazhuang, Wu Deguang, Tao Shoubo and other famous seal engravers have all carved seals for Lu Xun.
Regarding Chen Shizeng, after Lu Xun finished reading in Nanjing, he traveled to Japan on the same ship to study, which is the one in the following picture:
Chen Shi once made a portrait
Lu Xun and Chen Shi were classmates of nanjing mining road school and Japanese Hongwen college, and they were brothers who slept on Lu Xun's "upper bunk", and later worked with the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China. Chen Shizeng's seal carving, The Master Wu Changshuo, the layout is novel, the engraving pen is strong, the spirit is majestic, full of golden stone charm, and has always been loved by Lu Xun. Chen has engraved many pieces for Lu Xun in his lifetime, such as "Huiji Zhou's Collection", "Huiji Zhou's Collection", "Qiantang", etc., all of which are good compositions and everyone's standard.
Huiji Zhou Clan Collection Huiji Zhou Clan Qiantang
Among the seals commonly used by Lu Xun, two sides were carved by the early Xiling Indians Wu Deguang and Tao Shoubo, Wu Deguang was the eldest son of Wu Yin, one of the founders of Xiling, and the word "Lu Xun" in imitation of the Han seal body was engraved with double knives, and the seal was round and generous, the seal was stretched, and the momentum was thick and simple.
In the thirty-fifth year of the Republic of China (1946), the copyright page of the first edition of "Lu Xun Shujian" was affixed with a copyright ticket of Lu Xun, which was used in this seal.
On the other hand, Zhu Wen "Luo Wen" is engraved by Tao Shoubo, and chen Julai, Fang Jiekan, and Ye Luyuan are the same as the "Four Masters of Zhao Men".
Mr. Lu Xun's own seal carving is high or low, in fact, we do not have to deliberately look for it, look at the emblem of Peking University, it is Mr. Lu Xun designed on the basis of traditional Chinese wadang, the word "Peking University" is like a person carrying two people, constituting the image of "three people becoming a crowd", giving people the imagination that "Peking University people shoulder the heavy responsibility of opening up the people's wisdom", and the word "Peking University" also has the symbolic meaning of "backbone".
Peking University logo
According to the information, Mr. Lu Xun has a total of fifty-six posthumous seals, including fifty square seals and six seals without physical objects. These prints are mostly name and pen name seals, book appreciation chapters, and idle chapters. Although there are only a few dozen seals, mr. Lishu intersects with the characters, and the events he has done, the fate of a generation of literary heroes Lu Xun and the seal carving can be described as profound, from which we can roughly imagine: literature and art are always connected.