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About The Xiling Seal Art Society

The Xiling Seal Art Society is a Chinese arts employer based totally in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, PRC. It become based in 1904 however, with antecedents courting again to the Ming and Qing dynasties, is certainly one of China's maximum crucial traditional stone seal engraving associations. During the Yuan dynasty the maximum well-known seal engraver was the scholar and artist Wang Mian, who is credited with first the usage of gentle stone for seal making. During the Ming and Qing dynasties seal engraving flourished in China, specifically in the Yangtze River Delta area, in which there was a non-stop wealthy creative tradition.

There were many one of a kind schools of seal making and plenty of independent artists specialized in seal reducing, seal script calligraphy, and the selection of seal stones. In South China, the 3 principal faculties of seal engraving in the course of these durations have been the Hui School, the Zhe School, and the Hai School. The Hui School become already a mature seal engraving faculty as early as the Ming dynasty, especially all through the Jiajing and Wanli eras. The most famous seal makers at some stage in the early segment of this school have been Xiu Ning and He Zhen, who had been lively inside the mid–past due Ming dynasty. During the Kangxi-Yongzheng-Qianlong technology of the Qing dynasty the second one climax of this school seemed.

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