How to Understand the Same Origin of Painting and Calligraphy

The word "source" of the same origin of calligraphy and painting should contain two meanings, one of which is "image" and the other is "God". Painting and calligraphy have the same origin, the root of which is only one point, that is, the spirit of traditional Chinese culture, which is the essence of the entire Chinese civilization, Chinese civilization can not be separated from its nourishment.

From the relationship between calligraphy and painting, there has always been a "calligraphy and painting the same source" this statement. From the discovery of the earliest left engraved symbols, mostly on some specific things depicted. Mostly with extremely simple and generalized lines depicting people, animals, the sun, moon and stars. Whether it is huashan petroglyphs or cangyuan petroglyphs, or yangshao culture pottery or liangzhu culture jade can be seen on these early human paintings. But there has been no text, until the emergence of the oracle bone inscriptions used in the Shang Dynasty, there is a formal text used for recording, so how did the text come into being? From the oracle bones of Yin and Shang, some characters are extremely similar to some primitive symbols, and even some characters are directly the shape of simplified objects. Looking upward from the oracle bones, more and more symbols can be called both patterns and characters. The pictograms and most of the ideograms in Chinese characters come directly from simplified patterns.