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Nine-fold seal script [a] [1] [2] or nine-fold script, [b], [3] also called jiudiezhuan [1] [2] or jiudiewen, [3] nine-bend script, [3] or translated as layered script [5] is a highly stylised form of Chinese calligraphy derived from small seal script, using convoluted winding strokes aligned to horizontal and vertical directions, folded back and forth to fill the available space.
Scheme of Chinese seal, seal paste, and technique to use them. An East Asian seal which used to belong to a Chinese merchant in the 1930s and 40s. Many people in China possess a personal name seal. Artists, scholars, collectors and intellectuals may possess a full set of name seals, leisure seals, and studio seals.
11 June 1949: Zhou Enlai asked Chen Shutong to find a seal maker, regarding the making of seals for the government. Together with Qi Yanming , Chen Shutong decided to recommended Zhang Yuecheng as the official seal maker. A few days later: Zhou Enlai gathered Zhang and some experts to discuss and decide the design of the National Seal.
The Seal was created in 221 BC, shortly after Qin Shi Huang unified China and established the Qin dynasty, China's first imperial dynasty. The Heirloom Seal served as the imperial Chinese seal throughout the next millennium of Chinese history, and its possession was seen as a physical symbol of the Mandate of Heaven.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... is a variety of Chinese seal script. [1] Chinese characters; Chinese family of scripts; Written ...
Cook, Richard (2001), The Extreme of Typographic Complexity:Character Set Issues Relating to Computerization of The Eastern Han Chinese Lexicon Shuowenjiezi (PDF), STEDT Project, Linguistic Department, University of California, Berkeley, pp. 28–29: List of the 540 radicals in Xiaozhuan
Bird seal script (Chinese: 鳥篆; pinyin: niǎo zhuàn; Chinese: 鳥書; pinyin: niǎo shū [1] In this style, some parts of characters have a bird-like head and tail added. The bird style sign is a combination of two parts: a complete seal script character and one (sometimes two) bird shape(s).
The term seal script may refer to several distinct varieties, including the large seal script and the small seal script.Without qualification, seal script usually refers to the small seal script—that is, the lineage which evolved within the state of Qin during the Eastern Zhou dynasty (771–221 BC), which was later standardized under Qin Shi Huang (r.