What does "colored ink" mean in Chinese painting?

Ink is divided into five colors, which is the professional name of Chinese painting. Refers to the wet and dry multi-level shades that use water to adjust the color of ink. From Zhang Yanyuan's Records of Famous Paintings in the Past Dynasties in the Tang Dynasty: "Ink is transported in five colors." "Five colors" have different opinions, or refer to focal, thick, heavy, light and clear; Or refers to rough, light, dry, wet and black; There is also "white", which is collectively called "six colors". In fact, it refers to the rich changes in the use of ink color. In the Qing Dynasty, Lin Shu used the same ink and put it in five bowls with different amounts of clear water, which was used to distinguish the shades of paintings, and it was inevitable to apply it mechanically.

Five-color ink-details

Or coke, thick, heavy, light and clear; Or refers to rough, light, dry, wet and black; There is also "white", which is collectively called "six colors". In fact, it refers to the rich changes in the use of ink color. In Qing Dynasty, Lin Shu used the same amount of ink, put it in five bowls with different amounts of water, and divided the ink into five colors.

To distinguish between light and shade in painting, understanding is inevitable and mechanical. In Chinese painting, "ink" is not only considered as a kind of black. In ink painting, even if only a single ink color is used, the color of the picture can be changed to perfectly represent the image. Ink has five colors. Ink has five colors: dry, wet, thick, light and burnt. If you add "white", it is "six colors". Among them, "dry" and "wet" are the comparison of water content; "Thick" and "light" are the contrast of depth; "Coke" is darker in chroma than "strong"; "White" refers to the blank on the paper, which is contrast. The characteristics and uses of various ink colors are as follows: "dry" ink contains less water and is often used for rubbing, which can produce vigorous and ethereal interest. "Wet" ink contains a lot of water, which is mixed with water and is mostly used for rendering, or for spotting leaves and moss in rainy scenes to make the picture moist, or for splashing ink to show the charm of ink drops. "Light" ink is light but not dark. No matter whether it is wet or dry, it should be light and vivid, and it is mostly used to draw distant images or bright faces of objects. "Thick" is thick black, which is often used to draw close-up images or the dark side of objects. Coke is darker than thick ink. It is a pen for dipping in extremely black ink, and this is Jiao Mo. It is often used to highlight the darkest part of the picture, or to hook and roll. In ink painting, ink color is divided into five shades, namely, coke, thick, heavy, light and clear. This first depends on the quality of the ink used. Ink or ink essence is made from American "Qiyan" (made in Shanghai, with Tian Zi and Shouzi). ) it's just thick, thick, and it's hard to be light, let alone clear and vivid. During the reign of Emperor Guangxu of Tongzhi, the ink was only a few shades of coke, heavy and light, neither dark nor light. Generally speaking, five-color ink is like this: (1) Jiao Mo-that is, the developed ink is volatilized in the inkstone for a long time, and then used in the extremely deep and prominent parts of painting. It is a particularly dark part of the whole painting, black and shiny. (2) Thick ink-refers to the blackness of ink, second only to Jiao Mo. Jiao Mo may be shiny, and thick ink looks dark and dull because of adding water. (3) Heavy ink-this is for light ink. It contains more water than strong ink and is darker than light ink. (4) Light ink-when water is added, it turns gray, which is called light ink; (5) Clear ink, there are only some light gray shadows on the ink color, showing a fuzzy image like morning mist and evening smoke. Generally speaking, good ink can be both thick and light, which is determined according to the number of times of tamping when making ink. As for the painter, it is not easy to achieve clear ink color with ink. In ancient times, painters were good at drawing clear ink colors with ink: Fu Yao in the Song Dynasty, Fang Hu in the Yuan Dynasty, Yun in the Qing Dynasty (born in 1633) and Hua in the Qing Dynasty (Silla). They are all painters who are good at using ink, their landscape paintings, flower-and-bird paintings and so on. The clarity and agility in ink color are set off by other different shades of ink. In other words, in the blank part of a painting, the light and shadow of something is drawn, but this light and shadow has extremely important performance value in this vast area, which embodies the characteristics of a certain time and space, and makes the viewer go deep into the painting and imagine that there are many things buried in these shadows. So we think this kind of painting is endless and intriguing.