Interest in bronze and stone inscriptions among Ch'ing dynasty scholars encouraged the development of seal carving and many different schools arose.
到了清朝，金石之學大興，鼓勵了篆刻的發展，至此流派林立，編印譜亦成為風氣，使得篆刻藝術更加豐富璀璨。方寸之間明典章