The Wheat Spike Shaped Flower Knife is a hybrid knife technique that combines the use of oblique and straight gravers.

Knife skills refer to seal carving knife skills, martial arts knife skills and culinary knife skills. Seal carving knife method refers to the engraving of seals the method of knife. According to the engraving method is divided into single knife and double knife. Martial Arts Knife Skill is the method of practicing the knife for martial arts practitioners. Cooking knife method refers to the specific method of cutting raw materials knife.

The knife is like a pen, which is the most important feature of the art of seal carving. The pen has a center and side stroke, the knife also has a center and side stroke; calligraphy has big and small seal scripts, true and cursive, seal has Zhu and white, dense and sparse, curved and straight; calligraphy and seal carving although the method and tools are different, but the reason is the same.

In order to achieve the ideal effect of seal engraving, must be based on the seal material, the size of the seal stone, the seal text Zhu Bai, the sparseness of the brush strokes, the sharpness of the knife pure and so on, and deal with the speed of the knife fast and slow, the size of the action, the rhythm of the changes in the power of the strength of a variety of relationships. But regardless of the use of any method, the principle of the knife is the same, must be "a good idea, bold and decisive, heart and hand in response.

The requirements for the lines of the work are also the same, that is, "fat is not bloated, thin is not weak, dignified and elegant, rich and flowing". Ming dynasty seal carver Zhu Jian "seal Essentials" cloud: "make knife like pen, not easy method. Positive front tight hold, straight send slow knot, turn with square, folding with round, no angles, no bloat, no saw teeth, no swallow tail, knife law all in this carry on!"

And the Qing Dynasty Feng Chenghui, "Indian School of Management" cloud: "manipulation of the knife should not be straight horizontal, horizontal is tender and no, drop the knife for its weight, such as painters said 'diamond rod, the so-called book folding hairpin stock, 'House Leak marks'. The operation of the knife wants it to live, since the rise and fall, if never pay attention to the person; in fact, not pay attention to the place, it is the spirit of the unity of the place. There are in and out, fat and thin, high and low, seems to promote non-prompt, seems to be sparse non-sparse, is no top grade".