Origin of Qin, Qi, Calligraphy and Painting

Chyi Chin's calligraphy and painting in ancient times, playing the piano (mostly guqin), playing chess (mostly Weiqi) and painting and calligraphy were the skills that literati (including some aristocratic families) must master to cultivate their self-cultivation, so they were collectively called Chyi Chin's calligraphy and painting. Now it is often used to express personal cultural accomplishment. Sun Guangxian, a native of Pengzhou in the Song Dynasty, wrote The Dream of the North. Smart, knowledgeable and literate. As for astronomical almanac, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, flute and huqin, they are ahead of Zhu Yi and others in the Liang Dynasty. Feng Ming Munlong's Yu Shi Yan Ming is twelve and twenty-five. He is charming and talented. Zhang Nanzhuang's seventh edition of He Dian in Qing Dynasty depicts dragons and embroidered phoenixes in an eclectic way, all of which are exquisite and all-round. Guqin, also known as lyre, Qin Yu and lyre, is one of the oldest plucked instruments in China. Guqin has been popular since Confucius' time and has a history of at least 3000 years. It was called Guqin at the beginning of this century. The creators of Qin are Fuxi, Shennong and Shun. They wrote banjo and sang Nanfeng. As a legend, you may not believe it, but you can see that Qin has a long history in China. The Book of Songs Official Luo includes My Fair Lady, Friends of Hare and Hare, and The Book of Songs Xiaoya, which also records Yu Tianzu's harps and drums. Chess refers to Go, and chess refers to chess. It is recorded in Ban Gu's Yi that he is knowledgeable in the world and unique in chess. "Mencius-Zhang Sentence" says that the number of races today is decimal. You can't do it if you don't concentrate. Qiu Yi is the best athlete in this country. Let Qiu Yi teach two people to play chess, one to concentrate on playing chess, and Qiu Yi listens; Although a person listened, he thought that the swan was coming, and tried to pay for the bow and shoot it to death. Although he learns from others, he is willing to do so. Because of its wisdom, it is not natural. Calligraphy is a unique traditional art in China. Chinese characters in China were created by working people and began to be recorded by pictures. After thousands of years of development, it has evolved into today's writing. Because our ancestors invented the brush, calligraphy came into being. Throughout the ages, Chinese characters were mainly written with a brush. As for other writing forms, such as hard pen and finger book, their writing rules are not completely different from those of brush, but they are basically the same. Based on tracing the source (after Oracle bone inscriptions), this paper focuses on the law of writing Chinese characters with a brush. As long as we have a narrow understanding of calligraphy, a broad understanding of calligraphy will be of great benefit. Calligraphy in a narrow sense refers to the methods and laws of writing Chinese characters with a brush. Including writing, calligraphy, stippling, structure, layout (distribution, lines, composition) and so on. For example, the pen refers to the palm and the five fingers are Qi Li; The pen carrying center is unfolded; Stippling is the same as a pen; The structure is shaped by words and echoes each other; The distribution is intricate, the density is appropriate, and the virtual and the real are born together, and the whole chapter is full of gas fields; Every word is ancient for literacy, and every word is big and small, and high is not as good as low. Calligraphy in a broad sense refers to the writing rules of language symbols. In other words, calligraphy refers to writing with its brushwork, structure and composition according to the characteristics and significance of words, making it a beautiful work of art. With the development of cultural undertakings, calligraphy is not limited to using brush and writing Chinese characters, but its connotation has greatly increased. For example, in terms of using tools, there are many kinds of pens alone, such as writing brushes, hard pens, computer instruments, and spray gun branding tools. Pigment is not only black ink block, but also ink, adhesive, chemicals, paint glaze and so on. In the past, the meanings of Four Treasures of the Study's pen, ink, paper and inkstone were greatly expanded and varied. From the way of writing, some people write with their hands, others with their feet, and many people write with other organs. Some people don't even use pens to write at all, such as pointing at books and leaking books. In terms of writing style, it is not a kind of Chinese characters, and some minority languages have also entered the calligraphy art world, and Mongolian is an example; From the point of view of style and composition, in addition to the authentic traditional calligraphy school, there has also appeared an intentional school in China, which is called modern calligraphy. Innovating on the basis of traditional calligraphy, highlighting the changes of characters, integrating poems, books and paintings, and striving for the unity of form and content, so as to make the work a masterpiece with three beauties of meaning, sound and form. In Japan, many calligraphers abandoned the language of writing and established the image of writing. mohists appeared. They wrote all kinds of writing images according to the weight of the pen, Ji Xu, the opening and closing of the nib and the change of writing position. Although this calligraphy school emphasizes imagery and novel writing, not all Chinese characters are imagery writing, so its development is limited. All these (of course, not only these) can be seen that calligraphy, like other things, is constantly developing and changing. This point must be highly valued by people in the calligraphy field. Painting mainly refers to traditional Chinese painting. The art of manually reproducing nature on a two-dimensional plane. In medieval Europe, painting is often called the art of monkeys, because just as monkeys like to imitate human activities, painting also imitates scenes. Before the 20th century, the more realistic the painting was, the higher the technology was. But in the 20th century, with the appearance and development of photography technology, painting began to turn to express the painter's subjective self. When a connoisseur sees a painting, he sometimes can't tell what it is, but he can definitely tell who painted it. Every painter began to form his own unique style.