What is the relationship between Chinese painting and calligraphy?

Calligraphy and painting is our country ancient and modern art categories in two extremely important art forms, they are like a pair of twin sisters with the same root and origin, in the Chinese culture and art on the stage **** with the display of elegant charm. Therefore, since ancient times, there are "calligraphy and painting the same source" said. Research has found that the important aesthetic links of painting art are all in the same line with the aesthetic links of calligraphy art. First of all, there is a similarity between Chinese writing and painting in terms of their origins. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Yanyuan, in the "Record of Famous Paintings Throughout the Ages", Volume 1, "The Origin and Flow of Painting", for the first time theoretically elaborated on the problem of the homology of calligraphy and painting. He believed that: at the time of the creation of characters, painting and calligraphy were the same body but not divided. A large number of pictorial characters were preserved in the oracle bone inscriptions and gold inscriptions of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which included two functions: pictograms and references. Exploring the origin of the art of calligraphy and painting from these pictorial characters, it is not difficult to realize that the art of calligraphy and painting in China was preceded by painting and followed by Chinese characters; and Chinese characters were preceded by calligraphy. In other words, the art of calligraphy is genetically based on painting and supported by Chinese characters. Calligraphy and painting are sister arts that are related by blood. Secondly, Chinese calligraphy and painting have similarities in brushwork. First, the tools are the same. Chinese calligraphy and painting use brushes, ink and rice paper as their creative tools. Secondly, the strokes are similar. Calligraphy and painting both emphasize the "brush", that is, the use of brushes for calligraphy and painting methods, laws, techniques, rules and so on. Calligraphy and painting can not be separated from the line of the plastic arts, painting "line" and calligraphy "line" of the evolution of the vein, are from simple to complex. The movement of the brush in Chinese painting and calligraphy, the line - stop, speed - Xu, reflects the speed of human emotion and the speed of nature's ever-changing. The ups and downs of feelings, the depression and elevation of the mind, the parting of life and death, and impassioned feelings expressed in Chinese painting and calligraphy are all contained in the line - stop. Historically, there are a lot of wise sayings and aphorisms from famous painters and calligraphers about "using books to paint". Tang Yin of the Ming Dynasty said in "On Painting with Brush and Ink": "Painting is like Regular Script, and writing is like Cursive Sage, but the brush is turned to the wrist and the ear is skillful. It can be seen that Chinese painting has reached a higher level by applying the "brush" of calligraphy to its creation. Thirdly, the ink method has the same origin. Chinese calligraphy and painting both emphasize the "ink rhyme". As the saying goes, "ink is divided into five colors". "The five colors are generally summarized as thick, light, dry, wet and burnt. "Ink" function, in painting on the performance of the painting can show more light and heavy, back and forth, the sense of light and darkness, in calligraphy on the performance of the line can show more charm, momentum, the flavor of the wonderful. Gong Xian of the Qing Dynasty said: "Ink (gas) in the see brushwork, (then ink gas) began to spirit; brushwork in the ink gas, then brushwork began to live. Ink and brushwork is not work." Qing dynasty Wang Shigu said more specifically: "Where a picture, with thick and thin brush, (ink) there are thick and light, dry and wet for a good hand. If out of a uniform, then light!" Third, Chinese calligraphy and painting in the context of similarities. Calligraphy and painting *** with the highest state is: "moderate", "introverted", "elegant". The highest pursuit of this throughout the "personality" as the ultimate goal of the ideal. This inevitably leads to their *** with the existence of the interlinked and interdependent relationship. Tracing back to ask the clan, Chinese painting and calligraphy is from the Chinese philosophers of the mediocrity of thought, the pursuit of the unity of man and heaven, the expression of the "through the gods of virtue, the class of the feelings of all things," due to China's vast territory, a long history, humanities, and the birth of poetry, painting and calligraphy in this land, music, dance *** with the composition of this huge cultural system. In the evolution of history, they through self-discipline, self-correction, self-abandonment, self-criticism and self-innovation continue to enrich and develop the Eastern civilization.