A Study Of Deng Shiru's Seal Script Style

From wide view of the development of calligraphy,Chinese calligraphy is accompanied by the evolution of writing and culture.Ever since the Qin Dynasty,seal script is the beginning of the progress of Chinese characters.It has gradually promoted a manifestation that blindly pursued technology capability and ornamental because of its decline in practicality.Calligraphers demanded depictive effects considerably higher than they claimed practicality from Qin seal script,marked by mount taishan stone,to exquisite and thin "cutting seal script" by Li Yangbing of Tang dynasty.As a matter of fact,a host of calligraphers have been groping and innovating for it in Chinese history.Nevertheless,calligraphers of Song,Yuan,Ming dynasty tend not to worth mentioned achievement apart from Li Yangbing of Tang dynasty carried forward it.Then,the resurgence of Qing dynasty seal script began until the appearance of Deng Shiru.In the history of seal,Li Si is recognized as the originater of seal script and Li Yangbing inherited the past,ushered in the future to develop conventional seal script,but Deng Shiru brought prosperity to seal script which was no news thousand years.The innovation of Deng Shiru' s seal was to break through "two li "form(the form of Li si and Li yangbing")which colligraphers had been believing in and combine seal script form and official script form.This new form has added the significance of Han dynasty official script and has followed the natural way of writing based on smooth seal script to not only represent naturally vivid line but also form manly bold seal style.And he used the practical writing of calligraphy in place of the process of"two li" brushwork,thereby created a new form and leaded to the revival of Qing dynasty seal script.The seal calligraphers in the late qing dynasty accepted good the advice and followed his path,especially the scope of the collection is more extensive,forming the characters of the seal script,which which created a prosperous scene of the Qing dynasty calligraphy circles.Li Zhaoluo,scholar in the qing dynasty and Deng Shiru' sfriend,evaluated his calligraphy "unique to common customs,allow operators at the beginning of the ancient",means that he slam the door in the writing of technology capability and came up with the ancient ways according to the law of natural calligrapgy.We can legibly see that he has consciously explored from "no understand ancient techniques" to "start to acquire proposition" and has reached to mature state from wildly borrow from epigraph to "use my own skills",from Deng Shiru 's learning of experience and his existed work style obviously change.In essence,the changing process of Deng Shiru's seal style is also the transmutation of the seal script.