What are the ancient Chinese painting chapping?

Traditional landscape painting techniques are more concentrated in the rocks on the chapping, such as lotus leaf chapping, pima chapping, decoupling chapping, chaotic firewood chapping, cow hair chapping, large and small axe chapping, folding band chapping, rolling clouds chapping, raindrops chapping, beans chapping and so on, we will summarize it into three categories but is 1, line chapping (pima-based), the face of the chapping (axe-chopping-based), chapping (to beans, raindrops-based).

(1) Phi Ma chafing (line chafing): chafing brushwork such as Phi open hemp Phi shape, was a long line, the performance of the rocks of the dark and concave and convex, full of structure and veins and arteries volumetric sense, as well as Jiangnan more often than grass and trees of the soft soil (South of all the family of the use of the Huang Gongwang).

The brush is slightly crossed. Short and loose is called the decoupling. Straight and messy called chaotic firewood chapped. Fine and short called cow hair chapped (Zhao. Wang used more). The above three examples are line chapped.

(2) axe chapped (face chapped): the most representative of the hard texture of the rock, with a pen such as an axe to split the wood of the marks, especially granite or artificial blasting after the rock, more of this shape. The big axe chopping first to the belly of the pen, horizontal lying on a sweep of paper, brush stroke with flying white, the performance of the yin and back of the rock is more appropriate, the small axe chopping is a flat pen for picking like, and slightly like the role and method of outlining. The big axe chops, small axe chops chops for the face chops class (after the Southern Song dynasty and Tang's more [Beizong]).

(3) raindrops, beans chapped (point chapped): brush strokes such as axe chops, also known as the small face chapped. Apply to the performance of the mountains, such as baking and dyeing verdant tones, can get the feeling of lush mountains, before the pen should be clear outlines, posture and dark, light and dark, solid and sparse changes. Horizontal point of the old name of the rice point, suitable for painting cloudy mountains (Mi Yunshan). Straight strokes with a flat edge was formerly known as douban chapped. Straight point of the old name of the rain point, nail head, sesame chapped. Above for point chapped class. (rock painting method step by step demonstration illustration, step by step text description omitted)

Chafing, is a Chinese landscape painting in the expression of the texture of the rocks, texture of a technique, derived from the natural world of real rocks and soil structure, is the expression of the objective existence of the natural geological and geomorphological structure of the soil and the form of the rocks, rock creases, texture, cracks, faults, yin and yang, concave and convex and so on the method. This method through the artist's artistic re-creation, the natural image into the language of painting, thus forming the expression of landscape, rock techniques. Chapping is not only created by painters through the ages, but also out of the natural structure of the texture of the rocks.