秦灭六国后,随着统一的封建制度的建立,各国文字异形所造成的文字使用的混乱终被小篆书体所代替,官印的形式也出现了新的规范,并在具体的制印过程中,对秦小篆的部件进行省减、挪移、嵌合等艺术处理使之更适合于章法表现,“摹印篆”就这样产生了,而且还成了“秦书八体”中之一种。许慎在《说文解字·叙》中记载:“秦书有八体。一曰大篆,二曰小篆,三曰刻符,四曰虫书,五曰摹印,六曰署书,七曰殳书,八曰隶书。”可见,秦代应有专门的“摹印”篆书 With the establishment of a unified feudal system, the disorganization of the use of characters caused by the alien characters of different countries was eventually replaced by the small seal script, and new forms of official seal appeared. In the process of concrete printing , The parts of Qin Xiaozhuan to reduce, move, chimeric and other artistic treatment make it more suitable for the performance of the chapter, “copy seal seal ” This produced, but also became “Qin eight body” One of them. Xu Shen in “Shuo Wen Jie Zi Syria” records: “Qin has eight body. One said seal, two small seal, three engraved character, four said worm book, Wu Yue said copy, Liu Yue Department of the book, Seven said 殳 book, eight, said the official script. ”“ Visible, Qin should have a special ”copy" seal