螭文炳煥，鳥篆紛綸；寶自龜封，珍其鵲墜。得禹廟之青玉，探潛縣之黃金，此皆璽印故事而成為佳話者也。
篆刻印章，咸師古法，雖分派別，代有傳人。近更名手輩出：或以雄奇樸茂嗚高；或以秀麗雅逸見勝，馳譽藝壇，大有人在。
治印之道，關乎印材，金屬間需鑄造，餘多以木石牙角為之。木石牙角易於奏刀，運用十指隨意刻劃。
若以玉為印材則不然，玉本溫潤，但最堅剛，刀縱銳利難人毫末。時非上古又安得昆吾之刀，切玉如泥以篆文刻字哉？
孟子曰「今有璞玉於此，雖萬鎰、必使玉人雕琢之。」可知玉是玉人所治，而非印人所治；就今能治亦非所長，玉印之不易為，已可概見。
吾友唐君積聖，致力篆刻有數年。法度遠溯兩漢周秦，功力深醇，風格高古；加以能集大成，各體俱備。
一般印材固自優為；尤以篆刻玉印，堪稱獨到。凡有作品，雍容華貴，韻味別饒，朱白方圓，無不愜心貴富。
精妙之處，豈果有昆吾刀，供唐君治玉印耶？能人之所不能，宜乎見重於世矣。
--崔雲巖撰文--
Tong Chik Sing --
A Jade Seal Carver
Great philosopher Mencius (372-288 B.C.) once said
,"No matter how expensive
this piece of crude jade may be, a specialized jade carver must be employed
to do the carving work."
Jade Seal-carving is a difficult job. Most of the
seal carvers prefer to work
on wood, stone, ivory or animal horns. With these substances, they can make
use of fingers and care in accordance with their own will.
Jade, however, is different. By look it may be
gentle and agreeable, but by
substance it is much hard and rigid. In olden days, exceptionally sharp knives
were said to have been produced in the district of Kwan Wu specially for jade
seal carving. The knife produced there was capable of chopping a piece of jade
as if it were cutting a lump of clay.
Tong Chik-sing has been studying and researing
into the art of seal carving
heart and soul for years. His achievemen is dwelled and mellowed with a style
superbly matching those of the old scholars.
No matter the seals carved by Tong are black or
white, rounded or square, they
express a sight of calmness ane fullness of a taste different from many others.
