Mr. Zifen’s seal cutting achievements are no less than those of traditional Chinese paintings. He made thousands of seals in his lifetime. In his early years, he carved seals of characters traveling in the water, hundreds of generals, hundreds of beauties, and swordsmen. He completed them again in his later years. Hundred Flowers, Patriotic Poet, Nine Friends in Painting, Earthly Branches and Circles were all highly praised by the wise at the time. He once said to himself: "I have been studying seal writing for sixty years, and I have been trying to make every stroke perfect and perfect. I am close to oracle bones, bells, tripods, and seals. I follow the footsteps of the predecessors and hope to carry forward and become prosperous." ’ The achievements are indeed impressive. The poet Chen Yan commented on his seal and said: "The two schools of Anhui and Zhejiang were integrated into one furnace, and he imitated the Qin and Han Dynasties. He devoted himself to it, so his writing power was vigorous and profound.
It is almost as if there is a complete white, winter Long-hearted. "Xu Beihong presented the painting "Bole Xiangma Tu" to Mr. Chen, with the following inscription: "At the end of the Wuchen summer, I traveled to Fuzhou for a short period of time, and met Mr. Chen's ambition. Before he was thirty, he had already named his family with seal engravings, and he was his wife. The chapters of "Wandering in Art", "What's wrong with a long head and chin", and "The world is for the public" are so majestic and powerful, with unparalleled wrist strength, Xu Heng is rare in this world. ” He also wrote to him asking for seals: “If you put your foot down in seals, you can do anything.” ...Contemporary sealers are as exquisite as Shou's stonework, as strange as Qi Baishi, as elegant as Qiao Dazhuang, and as elegant as Qian Shoutie, Ding Foyan, Tang Linze, etc. They also have exquisite works from time to time, but they are no more powerful than those of their elder brothers. ” Both Chen and Xu’s comments can describe its characteristics. His friend Mr. Pan Zhulan made a particularly detailed discussion: "One of the people who combines Zhongyan with seal management is Mr. Chen Zifen." Chen Zizhi's seal management not only mastered the six books, but also had extensive knowledge of the inscriptions of Zhou, Qin, Han, and Wei, and even famous scholars from Anhui and Zhejiang had dabbled in them. In life, the heart is willing to give in, and the stone in the warehouse is exposed on the fingers and wrists, which means that there are many meanings of giving in. Playing the knife for decades, there is no time for cold or heat. The desk is piled with stones, and in a short period of time, there are always more than an inch of manuscripts accumulated. The talent is deep, so the success is great. In Fujian, there are probably no seal carvers that can surpass them. Before this, the trend had not started, but Chen Zi started it; after that, the trend changed many times, but Chen Zi also did not change. Only when it is accumulated in the middle and thick, it becomes colorful, strange, and heavy, all of which are adaptable to changes. Because one knows that when one reaches the level of art, one must start with the Dharma, and it is based on helplessness, but it is not impossible. The Dharma becomes one and becomes many, and then one reaches the illusory state. In his later years, he often came up with new ideas and boldly engraved quotes from martyrs in simplified Chinese characters, which attracted people to compete for treasures. ’ Because they know each other deeply, they can speak accurately. Mr. Zifen wrote "Yixhenlou Seals", and what he said about seal management has great meaning, such as: "When engraving inscriptions in red, you must pay attention to the white, and when engraving inscriptions in white, you must pay attention to the ink." Those who seek truth must seek emptiness. He who seeks this will surely seek that. The concubine's changes are in hand, and her vitality is dripping. ” It is also said: “ Borders and printed characters have a wonderful way of creating and developing each other. Its discontinuation has to be interrupted, and its continuation has to be continued; its achievements contain its spirit, and its discontinuation is the reason for its momentum. On the foreheads of Han Dynasty stele and epitaphs of the Six Dynasties, there are obvious examples of those who first wrote the calligraphy and then drew the boundaries. Nowadays, people use knives and stone pieces to hit them randomly, or mix them with their characters. They are broken and broken, and their eyes are ancient and far away from the road. ’ In the seals and postscripts, they often expressed their insights into printing arts, such as: ‘Han and Jin literati seals were made by Zhao Jushu and Huang Mufu after Deng Wanbai. They thought they were tiles, jade talismans, and stone carvings, and they didn’t even try them on the forehead of the stele. Fu Jia, by collecting all kinds of things and melting them into one furnace, the realm of printing and sealing should be even broader. "The ancients said that books came from the people who printed them, and seals came from books. That's why learning to engrave books is very difficult to get the essence of sealing without writing." "Learn from Zhejiang to guard against thinness, learn from Anhui to guard against charisma, and those who bow to the ancients will rise to heaven and earth with their heads held high." "How can you say this unless you are proficient in this art!