Research Of The Structural System Of The Characters On Qin Seals And Sealing Clay

The seal and seal mud of Qin Dynasty mainly existed in the late Warring States period and Qin Dynasty.This paper analyzes the shape and structure of Qin seal and Qin seal mud from the Angle of philology.The seals and seals of the Qin Dynasty generally refer to the seals of the Qin State before the unification of the Qin Dynasty and the seals of the Qin Dynasty after the unification.They are mainly divided into three categories:official seals,private seals and idiom seals.Official seal characters are used as official letter certificates,mainly official seal characters.Comparatively speaking,Qin private seal and idiom seal are personal seals.Due to the influence of scribe change,the body of the characters changed,and some of the official seal has strong meaning or directly uses the official script font.The thesis mainly consists of four parts:The first part is the introduction,mainly from the concept definition,research objects and materials,research status,research significance and research methods several aspects of the Qin seal clay characters are introduced.The second part is about the shape and structure of the seal characters of Qin seal,which is the main part of this paper.It analyzes the shape characteristics of the seal characters of Qin seal characters from six aspects:simplification,complexity,generalization,alteration,confusion and replacement of the characters,and summarizes their evolution rules,in an attempt to correct the misinterpretation of the characters in the seal characters of Qin seal.The third part is the comparison between the seal characters of Qin seal and the small seal characters of Shuo Wen,which are mainly divided into two categories:the same structure and the different structure.The same configuration is mainly discussed from the aspect that the small seal character of Shuo Wen is selective to the seal characters of Qin seal.The morphological difference is mainly analyzed from six aspects of stroke difference,simplification,complexity,mutagenesis,substitution and displacement.The fourth part is the appendix Qin Seal Clay Font Table,font table as far as possible includes all the Qin seal clay font that can be seen at present,arranged in the order of Shuo Wen,a total of 2281 characters,248 characters not found in Shuo Wen.Font Table is the research material and basis of this paper.