After a landscape painter completes a landscape painting, he must also inscribe and seal the painting. Only in this way can the landscape painting be considered complete. The inscription includes the two arts of poetry and calligraphy, which together form the four arts of poetry, calligraphy, painting and sealing. They each have their own characteristics and work together to form a complete work of art.

Chinese landscape painting is a poetic painting, with freehand symbolism and lyricism. Poetry and printed books are an important part of humanistic paintings. Among them, calligraphy is the construction and support of drawing language and ink.

Writing has the same origin. Only "visual substitutes" that are "written out" rather than "depicted" can have imagery and the spirit of freehand brushwork. This shows the importance of calligraphy in Chinese painting.

In landscape paintings, poems and inscriptions are very particular, not to fill in the gaps, but to form a harmonious whole with poems, calligraphy and painting. Therefore, the position, number of words and font of the inscription are all very particular. . The title content can be long or short, but it must be related to the content of the picture. The shortest method is to just write the time of painting and the name of the author. You can also write the place where the painting was done. If the title is long, one or two lines of poetry or couplets are usually written. The longer ones can be a quatrain, a rhymed poem, a small order, or even a long tune or rhythm, but they are all inseparable from the theme and thought of the picture.

Today, we take landscape paintings as an example to discuss the significance and benefits of using verses or couplets to inscribe landscape paintings:

After a landscape painting is created, if you can add a A poem or couplet about ancient and modern characters that fits the theme of the picture will add interest and elegance. Good paintings and good poems complement each other. For example, Zhang Daqian's work "Boating Picture"

The desert water is long and quiet, and the spring scenery in the guest room is enough to stop.

A poplar tree can make you thin. I used to see you off on a boat when I was young.

After adding poems, the whole picture suddenly appears elegant and interesting.

For example, teacher Feng Jiantang’s poem on landscape painting:

Looking at Cangshan Mountain in the distance, the peaks are not all aligned.

But if it is like loose bone strength, there is no need to compare high and low.

This poem, combined with the painting, shows the painter's noble character, great ambition, and humble moral character.

For example, Mr. Feng Jiantang’s poem for the exhibited works in the event of praising the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China:

The fog rises in the east and shines on the mountains, and the pine wind and waterfall ring several times.

There are heroic sentences in the universe. If you want to understand, you must climb with a stick and shoes.

This poem expresses the painter's love for the country and the party, wishes the motherland prosperity, and highly praises the glorious theory that "practice brings true knowledge" and "practice is the only criterion for testing truth." It expresses the painter's inner voice.