肖形印其实只是一种讲法,从广义来讲,它是图案印的一种,在两汉时期,图案印的比例还是相对比较少的。那会儿它的使用方式跟我们今天是不一样的,那个时期的印章都是钤押在紫泥质地的泥封上面。我们现在可以看到秦汉时期的肖形印实际上都是以白文为主,因为白文打在紫泥上面,白文就翻转成朱文,而朱文显示出来的形象比白文更容易看得明确清晰。我们现在拿古肖形印打在连史纸上,为什么往往只见一个外形? Shaw-shaped seal is actually just a way of speaking, in a broad sense, it is a kind of pattern printed in the Han Dynasty, the proportion of printed pattern is still relatively small. At that moment, its use was different from what we are today. At that time, the seals of the period were held in the clay seal of purple clay texture. We can now see that the Shapes and Forms of the Qin and Han dynasties were in fact mainly white texts. Because the wen-wen played above the purple clay, the wordings were turned into Zhu-wen, while the wordings displayed by Zhu Wen were easier to see clearly and clearly than the wutches. Now we take the ancient Shapes printed in even the history of the paper, why often only see a shape?