Calligraphic Achievements and Painting Achievements of the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties

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The connotation of calligraphy mainly includes the following aspects:

1. Calligraphy refers to the art of expressing emotions by using the four treasures of the literary room as tools. The specificity of the tools is an important aspect of the art of calligraphy. The use of the four treasures as tools and the full realization of the performance of the tools are an important part of the technique of calligraphy. Without the four treasures, the art of calligraphy can not be mentioned.

2. The art of calligraphy uses Chinese characters as its carrier. The specificity of Chinese characters is another important aspect of the specificity of calligraphy. Chinese calligraphy is inseparable from Chinese characters, and the shape of their dots and the combination of their radicals are of great concern to the writers. Unlike other pinyin characters, Chinese characters are a combination of form, sound and meaning, with strong formal implications.

The so-called "Six Books" of the ancients refers to the six methods of creating and using Chinese characters, namely, pictograms, referents, huiyi, shaped sounds, transliteration, and pseudo-borrowing, which are of great significance in analyzing the form and structure of Chinese characters.

3. The background of the art of calligraphy is traditional Chinese culture. Calligraphy is rooted in the soil of traditional Chinese culture, and traditional culture is the background on which calligraphy survives and develops. The theories of calligraphy since the Han Dynasty that we can see today have their own systematic, complete and organized nature.

Like other theories of literature and art, the theory of calligraphy includes both the technical theory of calligraphy itself and the theory of its aesthetics, and in these theories, the light of the wisdom of the ancient Chinese literati shines through. For example, the theory of calligraphy on how to express "God, gas, bone, flesh, blood" and other categories of theory, the theory of brushwork, calligraphy, chapter and other techniques, as well as the theory of creativity, product reviews, etc., all have their own system.

4. The ontology of the art of calligraphy includes brushwork, characterization, composition, chapter, ink and brushwork. Calligraphy brushwork is the core of its techniques. Calligraphy, also known as "brushwork", refers to the method of applying the brush with a sharp edge. Character method, also known as "knot", "structure", refers to the relationship between dots and drawings within the word with, interspersed, echoing, avoiding, and so on.

Chapters, also known as "Bubai", refers to the overall layout of a word, including the relationship between words, the relationship between lines. Ink method is the method of using ink, referring to the handling of ink thickness, lightness, dryness, dryness and wetness.

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