How to taste Shoushan Stone Seal? What kind of Shoushan stone seal is the best?

Yin Shi, the abbreviation of Yin Zhangshi, is an important material carrier of China seal. Yin Shi has a long history. As early as the Warring States to the Western Han Dynasty, talc was occasionally used for printing. Before Yuan Dynasty, people mostly used gold, silver, copper, iron, jade and ivory as seal materials. In the Yuan Dynasty, some literati painters and painters tried to carve with Elaeagnus Elaeagnus, which was a revolutionary pioneering work and announced the arrival of the lithograph era. China seal art has thus entered a colorful and unprecedented period of prosperity; The aesthetic requirements for button carving are getting higher and higher, and the art is becoming more and more exquisite; The writing and seal cutting of seals is a vast world for literati to gallop their thoughts and feelings and reflect their aesthetic pursuit; At the same time, the requirements for stone materials are becoming more and more exquisite.

Shoushan Stone Seal has an important artistic and cultural position in the history of China. It can fully express the feelings between pen and ink on one side of the seal. It is one of the traditional "Four Yin Zhangshi" in China, and it is known as "the treasure of China". Shoushan stone has been used to carve various seals since ancient times, attracting countless people's attention with its unique bright color, warm texture and easy to raise a knife.

Shoushan stone is crystal clear, greasy and colorful, with natural color and distinct color boundaries. It is rare, humanistic and ornamental, and is deeply loved by people at home and abroad. Shoushan stone is produced in Shoushan and its nearby villages in Fujian. It is the only producing area of Shoushan stone on the earth, which is very rare, which also explains why Shoushan stone is expensive.

Shoushan stone seal is an art combining seal cutting with Shoushan stone. It rose in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and was really valued by the world. It was deeply loved by emperors in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. So the emperor's dignitaries and literati rushed to collect them. Therefore, Shoushan attracted worldwide attention in the Qing Dynasty. Today, Shoushan Stone ranks first among the candidate stones.

Shoushan stone can be divided into three categories: tiankeng, shankeng and puddle 100. Tiankeng refers to stones produced in rice fields near Shoushan Village, represented by Tian Huang. In ancient times, it was said that "Tian Huang wins two, and the price is better than gold", which is a treasure in Shoushan Stone. The puddle refers to the stone produced by the pithead vein in the south of Shoushan Village. Because the ore body is immersed in underground water for a long time, the rock mass is crystal clear. Top-grade crystal does not freeze under the yellow field. Shankeng refers to the exploitation of pyrophyllite in the mountains around Shoushan Village. Those old stones, such as hibiscus, litchi and Sambo, have doubled in value recently. How to taste so many varieties? How to judge what is a good Shoushan stone seal? Mastering the following five points, I believe you will be much smoother on the road of selecting and collecting Shoushan Stone seals.

The first is "taking sex as the sky". Its natural features determine its position and value in Yin Shi. There is a traditional proverb in Yin Shi that "Shoushan Tianhuang is the emperor and Changhua Chicken Blood is the queen". Tian Huangshi is the best seal in Shoushan Stone.

The second is "net height". The purer the color, the cleaner the better. The best color is pure inside and outside. The more uniform the color, the better the saturation. The whole color is the most precious. The tasting of Shoushan stone seal has always been based on the "warm, solid, fine, clean, moist and greasy" of the stone, all of which are aimed at the texture of the stone. It is important to look at it with luster and feel it with warmth, so that people can fully feel the aura and vitality endowed by nature to Shi Mei.

The third is "taking the party as the top". Square seal is the best seal shape. The seal face of the square seal is square, and the four seals are square columns. Fang Zhang is the most wasteful and extravagant. Generally speaking, if you want to cut a square chapter, you have to waste at least five times the stone. In particular, the six fine seals with square faces have the highest requirements for Shoushan stone, and the materials on each face must be clean, colorful and cool, so the perfect square seal is hard-won and very expensive.

The fourth is "taking power as treasure". In addition to square seals, seals also have reverse seals. The same Shoushan stone is cut into two pieces with the same size and hexagon, with the same quality and color, and the stone texture can also be integrated, and it is best to form a symmetrical pattern.

The fifth is "putting vegetarian food first". There has always been a saying in the seal industry that "quality is the best". "Quality is the best" basically means that when carving Shoushan stone, it is concise, refined, just right and lifelike without adding any burden or redundancy.

Nowadays, with the continuous development of the times, seals have become collectors' favorite collections, and the ancient rhyme that Shoushan Stone itself can't hide is firmly attracting people. The identification of Shoushan stone seal quality needs enough seal knowledge as the basis. Only by knowing, understanding and understanding the uniqueness of each Shoushan stone seal can we know the true stone and the excellent stone with our eyes.