How did the ancients draw landscape paintings?

China's ancient landscape painting is the material medium for the ancients to study and convey their "mind", the result of their exploration of human spiritual world, and their understanding and crystallization of the essence of human spirit. This kind of painting is inseparable from the spiritual cultivation system of "heart".

If the relationship between the cultivation of "mind" and landscape painting is defined by the commonly used expressions of "body" and "use" in ancient times, then the cultivation of "mind" is body, and landscape painting is use. The breath of "tranquility", "indifference", "alienation" and "idleness" revealed in the picture, including the use of pen and ink, is only the external expression of this spiritual accomplishment.

1. Small banner landscape painting "Looking at the Sea"

Through such spiritual cultivation, one's life will change from the inside out. The face, body, even every cell and temperament of a yogi will change, not to mention his (her) behavior and brush strokes left on the screen!

Its purpose is to find the root of the problem.

Only by understanding why the ancients painted landscape paintings can we discover the spiritual background and true meaning of ancient landscape paintings. In this way, we have a clear clue, along this red line, we can think about the next step.

-Use it to measure and position "Chinese painting" and "ink painting". Compare "Chinese painting" and "ink painting". What are the similarities between their spiritual background and ancient landscape paintings? What is the difference?

Does the concept of "Chinese painting" reflect the "heart" and its spiritual cultivation system, and take this as the purpose? If not, is "Chinese painting" still a traditional development? Or is it just another standard formulated by modern China under the circumstances and times? So when future generations write this history, is it more appropriate to regard it as "* * * and China's painting"? Is it more appropriate to analyze China as a short-lived cultural phenomenon in modern times (relative to 1300)?

2. Wu Dakai's eight-foot banner landscape painting "The world in my heart is wide"

Are the paintings using Xuan paper and ink painting the inheritance and deduction of ancient landscape painting? Do they all represent the continuation of the so-called "mind" orthodoxy?

In addition, is the concept of "ink painting", which is surging at present, discussed on the same level as ancient landscape painting? If not, is it possible to return to the discussion of the essence of human spirit in its future development direction?

What's interesting is.

Questions and answers take time.