Engraving is an art category that contains many aspects, including olive carving, tooth carving, bone carving, micro-carving and so on. Let us take a look at the historical development of micro-carving art.
The history of Chinese micro-carvings has a long history. In the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty, micro-carvings appeared. In the Warring States period, the seals were as small as cumbersome, but the seals were divided into Zhu Bai. The well-known Wang Shuyuan's "The Boat of the Boat" is also a classic of micro-carving art in Chinese history.
There are few early micro-engraving categories. With the progress of the times and the development of science and technology, precision and fine tools are constantly being manufactured, and some new materials that can be used as micro-engraving are produced and discovered. People gradually realize that the traditional concept of "micro-carving" is a bit "fuzzy". Many people often mix "micro-engraving", "micro-painting" and "micro-carving". It is difficult to grasp the main points of the micro-carving technique when describing the "micro-carving". The main feature of micro-carving is that there is a three-dimensional space. The "Nuclear Carving", "Bone Carving", "Ivory Carving" and "Micro-carving" should belong to the category of "micro-carving". The "micro-engraving" is concave, decorative, and less stereoscopic; while "micro-painting" is a micro-engraving picture, or line drawing, with a pen or a knife line. It is a subtle painting. Kind. The micro-carving is a fine three-dimensional picture, which is a three-dimensional sculpture of the three-dimensional sculpture.
However, in the same piece of work, micro-carving and micro-engraving techniques are often used together to create. So when it comes to micro-carving, I have to mention micro-engraving. The art of engraving is the basis for the creation and development of micro-carved art. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many scholars have used the stylus inscriptions to paint in the square of the seal, and they are interested in self-entertainment. After the Shoushan Stone became the seal material, the micro-carving art of Shoushan Stone began to appear. In the early Qing Dynasty, Yang Lan and Zhou Bin had carved small characters in the secluded places of Shoushan stone carvings. Lin Qingqing, the master of the "Ximen Thin Italian School", often engraved himself with the finest strokes in the grass and stone crevices of the works. The name and production year and month, afterwards, some people on the four sides of the seal square column, with very subtle words, carved ancient poetry as a side.
In the 1960s, with the use of advanced scientific instruments such as magnifying glasses in the field of micro-carving, micro-carving art became a unique new art. In many micro-carving works, there are often micro-engraved poems or articles. At this time, people are more and more aware of the importance of micro-engraving calligraphy. Some of the works that are meticulously succinct are nothing but a pile of ant feet. Observing, swaying, unsatisfactory, glyph or dull, or skewed, or distorted, is not enough. Especially in the micro-carving works, it has become the success or failure of judging the micro-carving works. The reason why good works are highly respected by people, in addition to the micro-carving techniques, the reason is also the micro-engrave layout and the calligraphy skills of iron and silver hooks. It is noted that there are "eight great engravings of Huai Chan" and so on.
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