In the creation of Chinese painting, conception is the first, and many painting theorists first emphasize this point, whether painting landscapes, figures or flowers and birds.

In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Yanyuan wrote a passage about "Six Laws" in Notes on Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties: "The image of a husband should be shaped, and it should be shaped with backbone." The backbone is similar. Everything comes from the general idea and depends on the end of the pen. "He believes that intention is the purpose. Only in painting can there be abnormal and strange meaning.

Second, use line modeling to express the spirit-the modeling rules of Chinese painting

Chinese painting is in the form of lines, through which outlines, textures and volumes are drawn. Goethe, a German poet, said that art uses light to express its vivid expressions, and visible light is one of the modeling means in western painting. Chinese painting, on the other hand, is dominated by line modeling, which clearly distinguishes between Chinese and western painting in modeling means. However, this does not mean that western painting completely rejects the use of lines, but that light can be used as the main language of painting. French Rodin once emphasized that "a prescribed line runs through the universe", which refers to how plastic arts break away from the universe, and did not regard it as the main means of expression of painting. Traditional Chinese painting, on the other hand, has accumulated a very rich line type and skillfully portrayed various images, whether it is the broken lines of mountains and rivers or the lines of clothes.

"Writing God in Form" is a famous saying of Gu Kaizhi, a painter in Jin Dynasty, which established China's aesthetic view that artistic god is superior to form. It is very different from modern European aesthetics, which is purely abstract, that is, painting people is not only similar in shape, but also similar in spirit, drawing people's mental outlook, not stopping at the simulation of shape, not sticking to the truth of nature. This theory is the height that artists should strive to reach when establishing art. Under the guidance of this theory, many outstanding works with vivid descriptions have appeared in the past dynasties, which has become an important standard to guide painting.

Third, multi-point perspective counts white as black-the composition rules of Chinese painting

Chinese painting not only uses focus perspective, but also uses scattered perspective, which not only strictly adheres to the real space and white cloth, but also breaks the real space and white cloth according to the needs of composition, so that when an object appears in the picture, it can change its image and position according to the artistic needs of the object on the picture. Peony flowers below the horizon can also be placed above the Zhu Ping line to achieve the best perspective effect.

Chinese painting pays special attention to the management of blank space, and often borrows calligraphy techniques to make white black, that is, the part without painting should be carefully scrutinized and treated like the part with painting.

Fourth, the harmony between color and class-the color rule of Chinese painting

The color of Chinese painting is not limited by the cold and warm tone of light source, but pays more attention to the inherent color of the object itself, rather than emphasizing the conditional color under special light. When painting an object, give it basic colors to achieve harmony between color and object, color and line, color and ink, and color and color.

Five, the scene is vivid-the artistic conception of Chinese painting

Chinese painting requires the combination of pen and ink, emotion and scenery. In reality, there are infinitely rich scenes, and the painter has a strong image appeal. With this feeling, the painter aroused the passion to describe these scenes, so the works reappeared in the form of replicas of the scenes, blending the scenes together.

As for the vivid charm, that is, the artistic spirit created by the painter, which is different from the general sketch painting, should be vibrant, fresh and lively, poetic and fascinating to the viewer. If you don't show such vivid and rich connotations, you can't give people these feelings, and you can't reach the fascinating artistic conception of Chinese painting.

Six, poetry, calligraphy and painting, printing paper and pen-the unique form of Chinese painting.

It can be said that only Chinese painting can have the practice of inscription and seal. Not only can literati paintings show their unique skills in poetry, painting and calligraphy, but even ordinary paintings always need inscriptions and seals to have a strong traditional artistic atmosphere.

Inscriptions and poems can improve or supplement the audience's appreciation and understanding of the works, and can also enrich the structural changes, playing a variety of roles in setting off each other, complementing each other, embellishing and balancing the composition.

The performance of tools and materials of Chinese painting also determines the characteristics of Chinese painting. Chinese painting uses silk and paper, especially the appearance of raw rice paper, which gives full play to the pen interest and ink color. The permeability of Xuan paper and the sharp cone of the brush make the nib change endlessly, which produces wonderful effects. At the same time, various imitations and descriptions, paintings and brushwork have also been formed.

The above six points are the obvious characteristics of Chinese painting itself.

Chinese painting has its own obvious characteristics. Chinese painting does not pay attention to perspective, does not emphasize the change of light and color of objects in nature, does not stick to the appearance of objects, but emphasizes the expression of the author's subjective interest. Chinese painting emphasizes "expressive form" and pursues a feeling that "beauty lies between similarity and dissimilarity". Western paintings, on the other hand, emphasize "writing shapes with shapes". Of course, in the process of creation, we also pay attention to the expression of "God". But it pays great attention to the integrity and generality of the picture. Some people say that western painting is an art of "reappearance" and Chinese painting is an art of "expression", which makes sense.

Of course, the rich environment in life is the most vivid picture book for painters, and painters should constantly hone themselves in life. Chinese painting has always emphasized taking nature as a teacher. Only from this rich treasure can we develop artistic treasures, get inspiration from nature and collect a wide range of materials. Basic skills go hand in hand and are indispensable. We only copy the manuscripts of our predecessors. After a long time, we lose the ability to create independently. If you only rely on sketching, you will often lose the traditional brushwork.