Hu Zhengyan's "Ten Bamboo Zhai Painting Notation", all printed by the rao plate method, the so-called yu plate, is to copy the colored paintings according to different colors, each color is carved into a small wooden board, and then sequentially overprinted or overlapped color by color, and finally form a complete color picture.
Print a painting, more can use thousands of plates, less than a dozen pieces. Because the small wooden planks carved one by one resemble dumplings, they are called gluttonous plates. The picture printed in this way, the intensity of its color, yin and yang to the back, can be shown at will, almost no different from the original, the artistic effect is breathtaking.
In the history of Chinese printmaking, the Ming Dynasty color overprint prints have the most works and the highest achievements, and since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the woodcut color printing technology that people have explored for a long time has produced a qualitative leap. The emergence of the Chinese engraving and printing can adjust the intensity and light tones at will, not only painting, but also monochrome painting, and also achieve the same effect as the painter's hand painting. It can be said that this is another revolution in Chinese engraving woodcut printing, which has had a huge impact on domestic and foreign countries.
Although we cannot say that Hu invented this technology, it can be said that Hu has brought this technology to the fullest. To this day, the specific division of labor in the whole process of woodblock watermarking still generally follows Hu's model.
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