The main forms of calligraphy in Chinese paintings are vertical scrolls, horizontal approvals, hand scrolls, albums and what ...

Chinese painting calligraphy form mainly has a vertical axis, horizontal approval, hand scrolls, albums, and screen strips, pairs of banners, fans and so on.

1, vertical axis

axis for the straight unfolding of the mounting form, was long, so most of the picture composition and text for the vertical arrangement. Painting to the center is called "painting heart", "painting heart" as the boundary between the upper and lower part of the "sky", "earth", the upper part of the block called "head of the sky", the upper part of the block called "head of the sky". The upper block is called the "head of the sky", the lower block is called the "head of the earth", and the upper and lower shafts are also called the "heavenly pole" and the "earthly pole" respectively. The upper and lower shafts are also called "sky pole" and "earth pole" respectively.

2, screen bars

For the vertical axis and a combination of screen, screen bars can be divided into "unique view screen" and "through the scene screen" two kinds. Each piece of work in the "single scene screen" is independent and interrelated, such as "spring, summer, autumn, winter" or "plum, orchids, bamboo, chrysanthemums" and other themes.

3, pairs of banners

For the double hanging in pairs, the most common for the calligraphic couplets, that is, "couplets". Hanging in rows on the right side for the first couplet, the left side for the second couplet.

4, horizontal batch

and hand scrolls similar to the horizontal batch for the long banner painting, the difference is that the horizontal batch is shorter than the hand scrolls, suitable for hanging ornamental in order to achieve the eye decorative purposes.

5, fan

According to the form of the fan is divided into a round "fan" and the upper wide and lower narrow "folding fan". The "regimental fan" is the traditional form of the Chinese fan, while the "folding fan" is the form of the fan imported from Japan in the Song Dynasty and popularized in the Ming Dynasty. Usually, for the sake of preservation, the fan faces of the regimental fan and the folding fan are framed and preserved in the form of album pages.

6, hand scroll

Hand scroll for the horizontal unfolding of the form of framing, but also in the form of a long strip, hand scroll picture composition for the horizontal development of the continuity or segmentation of the picture. When viewing, the viewer's right hand rolled, the left hand unfolded, from right to left a section slowly appreciate.

7, album

Sometimes, painters or collectors will be some individual independent or mutual relevance of small pieces of work framed pages, pages into a book, in order to flip through the appreciation of the framing method known as the "album".

Brush and ink expression:

1. Gongbi: Longer drawing time, meticulous outlining and rendering. The lines will be outlined exquisitely fine, the lines are strong and not false, can be supplemented by color creation.

2. Boneless: The boneless method is between the brushwork and writing. "Bone" is "bone line", meaning the outline line, boneless means that the painted object does not have an outline line, but only color or ink to present the image of a creative way, usually seen in the bird and flower works.

3, writing: the opposite of brushwork, not the pursuit of exquisite detail, but a smooth and natural way to write a painting with little brushwork, do not look for similarity but look for God, for a kind of creative approach with the artist's subjective emotions.