中国古代印章,据目前可以确定年代的大约从春秋战国之际到清代,其间经历两千四百余年而沿用不衰。中国的古印章与世界其它地区古文明,如古罗马、古巴比伦地区的古代印章,在出现的时间上先后有别,在使用形式上有很大不同。中国古印章延续时间长而连贯,发展演变脉络较为清晰,而其一产生即主要以文字形式独立于世,中国的印章对周边地区,主要是日本和朝鲜半岛,有着重要的影响。印章在中国古代,做为社会生活中的 Ancient Chinese seal, according to the present can be identified from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qing Dynasty about the occasion of the Qing Dynasty, during which two thousand four hundred years while still in use. The ancient seal of China and the ancient civilizations in the rest of the world, such as ancient seals in ancient Rome and the ancient Babylonian region, have diverged in time and have very different forms of use. The ancient Chinese seal has a long and coherent continuum and a clear context of its development and evolution. However, one of its origins was that it was largely independent of the written form. The seal of China has an important influence on the surrounding areas, mainly Japan and the Korean Peninsula. Seal in ancient China, as a social life