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The quality of Chinese painting does not lie in the shape, but in the charm of the picture, the rhyme comes from, in the poetry of the text, and the poetry of love depends on the pen and ink. Therefore, the ancients said: "The height of painting lies in pen and ink."
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Modern people, painting circles comment on painting, like to "exaggerate one and depreciate one". Hi, the literati painting, ink painting, large freehand painting as elegant, and the color, the detailed evaluation as customary. Market appraisal paintings like to call colored, detailed, and painted like good, and literati paintings, ink paintings, and large freehand paintings are rated as children's paintings. Both have their own opinions, and they are both "exaggerated and degraded". However, none of them are determined by the character of Chinese paintings, nor from the breath of the picture, nor do they have the meaning of looking at the pen and ink.
Chinese painting is attributed to pen and ink. However, the pen and ink should be "born". Born of pen and ink, it is a rhyme. Therefore, the use of qi rhyme vividly describes the advantages and disadvantages of paintings. Regarding qi rhyme, there are also different sayings, one says that qi rhyme comes from ink, one says that qi rhyme comes from pen, and some say that qi rhyme comes from meaning. Some people have also made evaluations for its three points, believing that qi rhyme is born in the most intentional, followed by the author, and again born in ink. I don't agree with these views, because they are all a single view. It should be known that "qi rhyme" is by no means a single pen or ink that can be presented. Pen, ink, and intention are symbiotic, indispensable, unintentional, not standing, no brush, no painting, no bones, no ink, how can the pen be displayed. Just taking a pen, ink or meaning to describe the rhyme can be described as ridiculous.
Pen, ink, and intention, many people like to talk about it separately, because pen, ink, and meaning are three individuals. What they don't know, however, is that when a painting is presented with pen, ink, and intention, it is no longer independent. Because there is one more important "person" in it. Pen, ink, and meaning are manipulated and given by people. It can be said that it is one with people. If the "qi rhyme" qi rhyme is born from what, it is most appropriate to come from people. But how does the painter give birth to the "charm" of the picture? It's ink and pen, it's thought. Therefore, the rhyme comes from the pen, from the ink, from the intention, and from the perfect combination of the three. As stated at the beginning of this article: the quality of Chinese painting does not lie in the shape, but in the charm of the picture, the rhyme comes from, in the poetry of the text, and the poetry of love depends on the pen and ink. Therefore, the ancients said: "The height of painting lies in pen and ink."