What does China's traditional painting and calligraphy refer to?

Calligraphy and painting are the general names of painting and calligraphy. Painting is the crystallization of creation in people's lives. Painting has a long history and rich connotations. In ancient China, poetry and painting were inseparable. Painting also reflects the author's emotions and thoughts. Painting often contains artists' strong thoughts and feelings, so art is deeply nourished in painting.

Book is calligraphy, which is the so-called word as the saying goes, while another view holds that book refers to cultural connotation. Therefore, painting and calligraphy refer to painting and calligraphy, which can also be understood as paintings with cultural connotations.

Classification of traditional painting

From the content of painting, it can be divided into: figure painting, landscape painting, flower painting, birds, animals, insects and fish painting, boundary painting and so on. Traditional painting in China can be divided into ink painting, turquoise painting, resplendent painting and light crimson painting.

Figure painting is one of the earliest traditional painting themes in China, mainly depicting characters. Because of the different emphases of painting, it can be divided into portrait painting, story painting and genre painting. According to records, figure painting has reached a high level in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Landscape painting, referred to as "landscape" for short, is one of the traditional painting disciplines in China. This is a painting with the theme of depicting the natural scenery of mountains and rivers. It gradually developed during the Wei, Jin and Six Dynasties, but it still served as the background of figure painting. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, many independent landscape paintings appeared. It developed to the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, and became more and more mature. Since then, it has become a major painting theme in China's paintings.