China Museum of Indian Studies

China seal art museum is the first seal art museum in China, which integrates literature collection, cultural relics display and academic exchange. The combination of strong academic atmosphere and pleasant natural scenery makes it a national garden Museum.

The museum is located in the east of Xiling bridge. The name of the museum was inscribed by Zhao Puchu. In front of the main hall, there is a 4.2-meter-high seal logo of Han Bailong, which is known as "the best seal in the world". The main museum has the seal hall, seal cutting art hall, calligraphy and painting Hall of past dynasties. It shows the history of the formation and development of China's seal and seal Science in real objects. There are more than 600 treasures on display, including rare pre Qin pottery clappers, seal clay, ancient seals of Qin and Han Dynasties, the earliest Gu's collection of ancient seal scores of Ming Dynasty and the original works of various seal art schools since Ming and Qing Dynasties. In addition, it also combines with the history Hall of Xiling Seal society. The corridors, pavilions and halls are connected with each other, making the elegant Museum of seal Arts and the original cultural landscape of Xiling Seal arts society integrated.

China Museum of Indian Studies

China seal art museum is the first seal art museum in China, which integrates literature collection, cultural relics display and academic exchange. The combination of strong academic atmosphere and pleasant natural scenery makes it a national garden Museum.

The main project of the Museum covers an area of more than 1300 square meters, which is connected with the site of Xiling Seal society, covering a total area of about 7000 square meters. Since its opening in 1999, the museum has received tens of thousands of people and has been established as a patriotic education base at the provincial and municipal levels.

Development history

China seal Arts Museum is the first seal Arts Museum in China, which integrates literature collection, cultural relic display and academic exchange. It opened in 1999.

In November 2019, the alliance of "watch Chinese characters" was established.

architectural composition

On the west side of the main entrance stands a 4.2-meter-high white jade dragon seal with seven characters "China seal studies Museum" inscribed by the late president of Xiling Seal society, famous Buddhist and calligrapher Zhao Puchu.

Seal Hall of past dynasties

Walking into the hall from the main entrance, you will see a granite relief porch with several exquisite, elegant and rich seals engraved on it, which condenses the 3000 year history of seal study. This is the "seal Hall of the past dynasties". On the one hand, the seal is exquisitely carved, simple and vigorous, which is more mysterious and remote in the dim light. The fine display cabinet and display window are extremely bright, just like the "bright moon of Qin Dynasty" set off by the stars, which makes people stay in the time and space corridor of the development of Chinese printing. With the pace of moving, history began to flow from the ancient Shang and Yin dynasties, and the precious objects told people the evolution process of seals accompanied by the emergence of words, from the pattern of printing to the utensils of relying on letters. With the change of history, seals show different styles in the aspects of shape, material, taste, casting and chiseling technology.

School seal Hall

Step into the "school seal hall" on the second floor, where famous artists gather and there are many schools. There are Wenpeng and he Zhen who started the seal style of a generation; there are "Xiling eight schools" represented by Ding Jing and "Wan school" represented by Deng Shiru; there are "six schools" in the late Qing Dynasty, such as Wu rangzhi, Wu Changshuo, Zhao Zhiqian, Hu Chuan, Xu sangeng and Huang Mufu.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, due to the different aesthetic pursuit, calligraphy cultivation and knife skills of the authors, different schools of seal studies with different styles were formed, and each had its own merits and leading style. Seal art has been greatly developed. At the same time, the research and quotation of ancient Chinese characters and the compilation of seal scores have gradually become an independent art style with rich connotation seal cutting. With the continuous deepening of the research on the history and theory of seal, it has developed into a special discipline seal cutting. In this process, the "eight Xiling schools" are the most influential and famous. The rise of Deng Shiru, a great master of the Anhui school, has brought a new atmosphere to the seal industry. He applied the ever-changing trend of seal script to seal cutting, emphasizing the fluency of the use of calligraphy to seal and the fluency of knife technique, and added the inscription on the stele of Han seal script to the seal method, which has a unique seal style. His masterpiece "the sound of the River breaks the bank thousands of feet" is even more amazing.

Seal cutting developed to the "six schools of late Qing Dynasty", which had accumulated the momentum of innovation and change. They did not follow the trend of fashion, pursued the Qin and Han Dynasties, wrote freely, and opened a new generation of seal art, extending to the modern seal art. Among them, Wu Changshuo, a great master of poetry, calligraphy, painting and printing, dominated the field of printing in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, pushing the study of printing to a new stage. His seal cutting of more than ten Fang Tian Huang in the display cabinet, eye-catching, can be called a unique, for the seal cutting home and abroad.

Qi Baishi, a famous modern painter known as the "three hundred stone millionaire", has a strong personality, such as galloping horses, pouring rivers, simple and bright. His engraving is often a single cut, bold, incisive. What he said is that "everything in the world is expensive and pleasant, not to mention seal cutting" is the interpretation of his creative mentality.

When you are still immersed in the ancient sense of dusk, and feel that there is such a gorgeous and boundless charm in every inch of your life, you have walked along the corridor full of ancient interest, along the mountains and by the potential, and come to the elegant and quiet "Dunan" and "HUanpu Jinglu" surrounded by bamboo. These two exquisite ancient buildings have been divided into "Yincai hall" and "Yinxue hall".

Printing materials Hall

"Printing materials hall" is a collection of metal, ore, ceramics, animals, plants and other five categories of more than 100 kinds of printing materials. Shoushan stone, Changshi stone, Qingtian stone and Balin Stone are of different shapes and colors, which make people forget to return. Ancient seals were mainly made of metal. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, with the development of calligraphy and painting and the participation of literati and officials, the seal was mostly made by literati and craftsmen. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, due to the popularity and popularity of stone based seal materials, the nature of the seal changed. The seal materials gradually touched teeth, corners, wood, etc., which opened the way for scholars to complete their own seal cutting directly, laid the material foundation for the development of seal cutting art, and led to the rise of seal cutting art in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Yinxue Hall

"Yinxue hall" displays the collection of yinpu and the works of seal carvers on Yinxue. Among them, "Ji Gu yinpu", "feihongtang yinpu" by Wang Qishu of Qing Dynasty, and "shizhongshanfang yinpu" by Chen Jieqi of Qing Dynasty are the earliest treasures handed down. It is of great academic value to the development of printing.

Along the winding stone path, you can climb the platform on the top of the isolated mountain and look at the sparkling lake. There are two or three sails and several small islands on the lake. His eyes moved to the nearby more than 50 landscapes of Xiling Seal Engravers society, including pavilions and pavilions, cliff carvings, statues of Seal Engravers, small bridges and flowing water, winding roads, and "a panoramic view of the eight hundred Li Lake and mountain". On the wall of wenquanchi, there are four seal scripts of Xiling Seal society, which are elegant and elegant. The thousand year old rattan spreads the charm of calligraphy, and the scattered stone benches are full of the vicissitudes of the seal altar. The blend of natural scenery and artistic realm is the long charm of Chinese history and culture.

Inkpad making technology

After walking off the platform and taking a rest in the "cool hall", we can see the printing clay production process. In the exhibition hall, in front of a huge open glass window, the process demonstration of making Xiling inkpad will make you have endless interest in it. Inkpad is an indispensable part in the practice of printing. For thousands of years, India clay has been proud of the world with India people. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, bamboo slips were completely abolished, all public and private documents were made of paper, and the intermediary "inkpad" came into being. Xiling inkpad, with a hundred years of craftsmanship, is famous at home and abroad for its bright color, no oil penetration in summer and no solidification in winter.

Xiling Seal society history Hall

Wear "Hongxue path", pass "mountains and rivers, rain and dew", and come to "Baitang" - Xiling Seal society history hall. The hundred year history of Xiling Seal society is closely connected with the development history of Chinese seal studies, which is a brilliant history of modern seal studies. A large number of full and accurate literature and history materials narrate the hard working years of the Indian society and its pride as an important town. Xiling Seal engraver's society is the earliest famous seal engraver's society in China. It is famous at home and abroad for its outstanding achievements in seal cutting calligraphy and painting creation and research, as well as its rich art collection. It is also admired by Chinese and foreign art circles for its gathering of famous artists and talents. There are the common aspirations of Ye Weiming, Ding Fuzhi, Wang Fuan, Wu Shiqian and other founders; there are the learned classics of Wu Changshuo, Ma Heng, Zhang Zongxiang, Sha Menghai, Zhao Puchu and other presidents; there are the elite styles of the Indian press, such as Li Shutong, Huang Binhong, Ma Yifu, Pan Tianshou, Han dengan and so on

In addition, there are "seal Gallery", "seal Gallery", "Wu Changshuo Memorial room", "seal carving creation research room", "Tijin hall", "Yangxian hall" and other landscapes, which all reflect the breadth and depth of Chinese traditional culture. While browsing, it's enjoyable.

Function value

With thousands of objects and complete sequences, the Museum of China's Indian studies shows people the history of the development of Indian Studies and Chinese Indian culture. Seal, which has developed from "the certificate of Keepsake" and "the symbol of authority" to seal cutting art, has gone through a long evolution process of more than 3700 years, and now has developed into a prosperous period, bringing people endless artistic enjoyment. On the basis of carrying out the tenet of "preserving gold and stone and studying seal studies", Xiling Seal society has made positive contributions to promoting the prosperity and development of China's seal studies, spreading and popularizing the cultural knowledge of seal studies, and improving the grade and popularity of Hangzhou as a famous historical and cultural city.

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