White painting is a method of depiction. Originally a technique of Chinese painting, it refers to a painting method that does not add color or rarely uses color, but only uses ink lines to outline objects on a white background.
As a method of description: white painting refers to the method of grasping the main characteristics of things, using concise and simple words, and sketching the image of things with only a few strokes.
White depiction of the scene, only a few strokes can outline a clear picture, making people feel immersed in the scene.
Example 1:
Tianjing Sand. Autumn thoughts
Horses and faraway dead vines and old trees, small bridges and flowing water people, ancient road west wind thin horses. Sunset
The broken intestines are at the end of the world.
The author simply uses the white painting technique to arrange the scenery, and outlines a "wanderer at the end of the world."
Achieve a song that has been sung for eternity.
Example 2: Find out the sentence of "Watching snow in the Lake Pavilion" to write the snow scene of the West Lake and appreciate it.
Rime is thick, the sky and the clouds and the mountains and the water, up and down the white. Only a trace of the long causeway, a little pavilion in the center of the lake, and a mustard with Yu Zhou, two or three people in the boat.
The text is concise and simple, without rendering, this writing method is white drawing. The white depiction in the text can grasp the prominent characteristics of the scene, which is quite charming. One trace, one point, one mustard, two or three grains, highly abstract and generalized, just like the freehand landscape in Chinese painting, with a few strokes, conveying the shape and god of the scene.
White painting is used to write about people, and only three words and two words can outline the appearance and demeanor of the characters, so that the reader can see them as if they were people.
For example: the description of the father's posture, clothing and action in "Back Shadow" is prominent, the image is clear, and it is sincere and touching.
Fat man; Black cloth hat, black cloth coat, dark green cloth cotton robe; Probe, climb, shrink, tilt
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