Chinese Painting: An Important Sign of Chinese Cultural Life

2024-01-18

When it comes to this topic, the first thing to understand is the context of Chinese painting. Traditional Chinese painting originated from the ancient Chinese ancestors who created pictorial paintings to satisfy their natural desire for beauty in their generations of life. Archaeological discoveries have shown that the decorative patterns on Neolithic pottery, as well as the patterns on later bronze and lacquerware, are important carriers of the origin of Chinese painting. During the Warring States period, painting on silk fabrics truly consolidated and improved the basic form of Chinese painting. From this, it can be seen that Chinese painting is one of the most primitive elements of Chinese culture, and is a multifaceted part of Chinese culture. During the Han Dynasty, Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, foreign cultures were inevitably introduced and collided with local cultures, forming painting creations mainly based on religion, mythology, and legends. As a component of painting materials, landscape painting and flower and bird painting also sprouted at this time. With the continuous development of social economy and culture, Chinese painting has also shown a comprehensive prosperity. By the Sui and Tang dynasties, characters, landscapes, and flowers and birds had matured. The emergence of literati paintings represented by Wang Wei and their development in later generations enriched the creative concepts and expressive methods of Chinese painting. In the inheritance and continuation of Chinese painting, it has also formed its own aesthetic paradigm, incorporating calligraphy into painting, and "painting in poetry, painting in poetry" (Su Dongpo dialect). This is determined by the characteristics of the conditions for the cultivation of aesthetic concepts in Chinese culture. The aesthetic expression of agricultural civilization is the freehand spirit of observing heaven and earth, overlooking all things, and not limited to precise description. This makes the need for Chinese cultural elements in the inheritance process of Chinese painting far greater than the demand for techniques, and also determines that the inheritance of Chinese painting has never left the long river of Chinese cultural development. It undertakes the formal replication and innovative expression of Chinese cultural spirit, and the formal shaping of cultural era spirit and signs. Like Zhang Zeduan's "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", it showcases the bustling city and bustling human fireworks of the Northern Song Dynasty; Ni Yunlin's mountains and waters are clear, sparse, and distant; Huang Gongwang's "Dwelling in Fuchun Mountain" is lush and natural; The lotus flowers of the Eight Great Mountain People are simple, quiet, and ethereal... The classic style created with the brush and ink of Chinese painting is deeply rooted in the aesthetic category of Chinese culture, with each stroke of ink pulsating with the life nodes of Chinese culture in the thick, light, dry, wet, slow, and smooth. During the Anti Japanese War, Xu Beihong's "Horse" and "Awakening the Lion", Qi Baishi's "Long Live the Motherland" and Li Keran's "Red Mountains" after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, are the shining traces left by Chinese culture in its continuous development, and the condensed presentation of the aesthetic charm of Chinese painting with the development of Chinese culture. The Chinese painting carries the spirit of Chinese culture, allowing the brushstrokes and ink to vividly display the great beauty of the times on rice paper. Although the styles of Chinese painting vary in different periods, the core genes of Chinese painting have never changed. To this day, the essence of Chinese painting, that is, the aesthetic style pursued, has always been to elevate the visual art from form to form into a metaphysical philosophical realm, allowing viewers to appreciate and savor the diverse expressions in seemingly simple pen and ink writing. What directly points to the tension of Chinese culture's context is the human heart. At present, human society has entered the digital age, and Chinese painting, which has lasted for thousands of years, is still vibrant due to its cultural charm. Chinese painting, as an important symbol of Chinese cultural life, carries a sense of Chinese culture,

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