The Zhaiguan seal is a seal engraved with the name of the calligrapher's and painter's study room as the explanatory text. It is generally used on the calligrapher's and painter's own works.
Zhaiguanhao is a traditional cultural form often used by Chinese literati in the past dynasties to express their thoughts and feelings, life scenes, personality hobbies, collection essence, etc. In layman’s terms, Zhaiguanhao is the name of a study, also known as Study number, Zhai number, etc.
Zhai names are commonly used in "room", "pavilion", "xuan", "tang", "guan", "zhai", "garden", "ge", "lou", "hut", They are named with words such as "mountain house", "book house", "thatched cottage", "book house", "jingshe" and "village".
The names of the study rooms reveal the temperament and interests of the owner to a certain extent. They are often due to something or due to a certain reason, and they are colorful and have their own meanings. These interesting room names often give people useful inspiration.
For example, the name of the famous study:
Feng Zikai: Yuanyuan Hall
Wen Yiduo: Why not go downstairs
Zhu Ziqing: You Xian Bo Yizhai
Pu Songlin: Liaozhai
Zheng Xie: Qipin Guan Er
Wen Zhengming: Yupan Mountain House
Xu Wenchang : Xiang Guan Zhai
Weng Fanggang: Fu Chu Zhai
Qi Baishi: Ji Ping Tang
Zhang Shan Jie: Dafeng Tang
Yao Xueyin: Wuzhijingzhai
The meaning of the name of the literati study:
The humble room: the name of the living room and study room of Liu Yuxi, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty. The poet once wrote a popular "Inscription on the Humble Room" to describe the simplicity of his study. He compared his "humble room" with Zhuge Liang's "Thatched Cottage" during the Three Kingdoms and the "Xuan Pavilion" of the Western Han Dynasty writer Yang Xiong, expressing his noble character. His character and his joy in living in poverty.
Laoxuean: the name of the study of the patriotic poet Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty in his later years. Taking the words of Mingzhai, "Learning is like walking at night with a candle in front of a teacher", he is determined to live and learn until he is old, and his life will never stop and he will never stop learning.
Kuzhai: The Ming Dynasty writer Zhang Yi lived in seclusion in a shabby room in Longquan County to study and create. He took pleasure in suffering, worked hard, and wrote many famous poems. He once said: "People know that happiness is happiness, but they do not know that suffering is happiness." Liu Ji was moved by this spirit and wrote the article "Kuzhai Ji" and named Zhang Yi's study Kuzhai.
"Qi Fen Zhai": also known as "Qi Lu Zhai". The Ming Dynasty writer Zhang Pu was diligent and studious since he was a child. When he read, he must copy it by hand. After copying, he would read it aloud and then burn it. Then he would copy it, read it again, and burn it again, and so on six or seven times. Over time, calluses developed on the place where his right hand holds the pen. In order to encourage himself, he named the house where he studied "Qi Fen Zhai". Xiang Jixuan: Ming Dynasty writer Gui Youguang’s study. It is said that his distant ancestor Daolong once lived in Xiangjijing, Taicang County, Jiangsu Province. He named it after "Xiangji" to commemorate his ancestors.
Liao Zhai: The Qing Dynasty writer Pu Songling named the bookstore "Liao Zhai". According to legend, when writing "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", Pu Songling often set up cigarettes and tea on the roadside in order to collect materials. Passers-by only need to come here to tell stories, rumors, or chat, and they can enjoy them for free. Once he heard useful "materials", Pu Songling would go back and compile them into documents, so he named the bookstore "Liao Zhai".