it's clear.

After the cold wave subsided, the temperature rose slightly. In Qiu Wenzhen's courtyard, Zhong Yue sat aside, watching him put the things he used to treat seals one by one on the table, and smiled and said, "It's still half a month left for the New Year, where are you planning to celebrate the New Year?"

"Huihuizhou is naturally home."

"Well, don't forget your roots, this is a person with one stroke and one stroke, capital letters. After the Chinese New Year, go to the seal club party on my behalf." Qiu Wenzhen had already handed over Zhong Yue's basic swordsmanship yesterday, but Zhong Yue's amazing speed of understanding surprised him. Has this person really not been exposed to sealing?

"Ayue, I'll ask you again, have you really not been exposed to sealing before?"

Zhong Yue nodded and said, "It's true."

Qiu Wenzhen frowned, "That's strange. Most people, if you start carving a knife, don't be as easy as you, it's very difficult to leave such neat carving lines on the stone surface. You have mastered it so quickly, which is really incredible to me."

Zhong Yue smiled faintly, "Maybe I'm used to using hatchets, oh, I forgot to tell you that when I was making a pen, I often used a carving knife to engrave words on the pen holder. Maybe this kind of craft will make me master the carving knife, which will be very smooth."

Is this the truth?

Of course not. Zhong Yue still told a little lie. Although seal carving is known as a tin pen, it still takes a lot of effort to actually use a carving knife to thrust and move it horizontally on the seal stone. Although there is no seal-control system in the brushwork system, there is one thing that Zhong Yue can still use to operate.

[Low-level proficiency improvement coupon]!

There is no system for seal control and no progress bar, but Zhong Yue exchanged a proficiency improvement coupon. I want to try it out. Even if it is ineffective for seal control, he can use it to improve other systems. Fortunately, it does work. Now that Zhong Yue lifts up the engraving knife, at least the knife in his hand will follow his consciousness, and it will not make the seal surface messy like the first time he has held the engraving knife.

It was not that Zhong Yue wanted to take advantage of the situation, but that he was going to achieve the same level as calligraphy, painting and seals that he wanted to do today. It did not allow him to spend ten or eight years to slowly master the basic seal carving skills. What he wanted to learn from sealing was the layout, also called "dividing red cloth and white".

In fact, if you don’t pick up the carving knife, you can learn the “dividing red cloth” on the seal, but just like talking about war on paper, you will never feel the fun in it.

Qiu Wenzhen said, "I originally thought that at my age, if I accept disciples, I would have returned to the West without waiting for you to have a future. However, seeing that you have such solid basic skills, whether you really haven't learned it before or if you have faked it, I will tell you about the tricks in the seal."

Qiu Wenzhen arranged several seals in front of him one by one. "Now, many people copy seals, mostly from the seals of their predecessors, and they don't have their own things. However, the composition, what is said in calligraphy, is originally used to quote the past from the seals. When you first learn to cure seals, you will talk about these things. It is easy to be confused and you have never done it yourself. You don't know how to think about this composition. Therefore, most people who make seals now copy seals from ancient people. What I want to teach you is not to find some of the things in the seals to tell you, but a summary I have learned in my life. You have to think about it carefully."

"yes."

"No matter which school of thought, put aside the lines, there are three points, which must be the point that the seal-maker keeps in mind, laying out the seal text, managing the virtual and the real, and improving the whole."

Qiu Wenzhen placed a seal in front of Zhong Yue, "The seal of the seal is the soul. If a seal is gone, it will disappear. Therefore, the arrangement of the seal directly determines the success of a seal."

"Sealing stones are like calligraphy and painting. One is "sculpting". In order to meet the needs of the layout, the internal and external structures of the seal text are greatly deformed, and the shapes that can occupy a range in the layout are generally geometric and have a strong decorative flavor. The second is "not to be sculpting". The structure of the seal text can occupy a range without sculpting. Some directly use long-circuit writing styles, with a more relaxed brushstroke, and some are slightly deformed so that the strokes are neat. This is like fine brushwork and freehand painting. Both have their own characteristics. Look at this one and this one, pay attention to their layout."

Zhong Yue took two templates, looked carefully, and asked, "Teacher, can I use yin and yang to understand this dividing Zhububai?"

Qiu Wenzhen's eyes lit up, "I have an understanding. What structure of the font is more reasonable in the layout of the seal, what kind of seal layout method is used as convenient, and what method is used to manage the virtual and real. After the arrangement is completed, the layout does not end. Various methods must be used to adjust the contradictions between the local and the local, and the contradictions between the local and the whole, so that all aspects are perfect, harmonious and unified. This adjustment, from the whole and the local, is a series of methods to improve the beauty of the local to the overall. And this coordination is what we have been talking about."

Zhong Yue frowned, "Yin and Yang..." This thing was still too empty. Now Zhong Yue should try his best to forget the influence of the nine powers of the gods and humans and the eight methods of eternal characters on him. He wanted to return to nature and reach the realm that Wang Xun said, but he could not confidently lift the pen. This step was still too difficult to take.

Seeing Zhong Yue suddenly feeling confused, Qiu Wenzhen explained: "The key to seal carving is to be full of energy, momentum, emotion and rhyme, and finally it is implemented in the word "harmony".

No matter how many words or shapes the seal are, they must be united in one qi. The relationships shown in slightness, reality, sparseness, etc. should be appropriate, and there is density in sparse, sparseness in denseness, reality in emptyness, and reality in realness. Qi gathers but not blocked, the momentum is relaxed but not messy, and there is change in unity. If you can write a good article on the four words "fiction, reality, sparseness, and density, the key points of the composition will be basically obtained.

I will never say that I can do it perfectly forever. Zhong Yue, remember to be arrogant and impetuous, and don’t be eager for quick success or instant benefits.”

After going around, Zhong Yue carefully pondered the meaning of Qiu Wenzhen's words. He wanted to find a breakthrough in the sealing treatment, but he focused on the word yin and yang...

"I see."

"Our Zhejiang School, the Qin and Han dynasties, often uses official style. We pay attention to the sword technique and use the knife to express the brushwork. We have roundness in the square, vigorous and simple, ancient and thick. If you can understand the key points I mentioned before, you will benefit you a lot in the future."

The carving knife in Zhong Yue's hand was rotating, "Yin and Yang, if I could really understand this, this trip to Lin'an would not have happened."
Chapter completed!