How much do you know about Chinese painting?

The word Chinese painting originated in the Han Dynasty. People in the Han Dynasty thought that China lived in heaven and earth, so he called it China. China's paintings were abbreviated as "Chinese paintings". Mainly refers to scroll paintings painted on silk, rice paper and silk and mounted. Chinese painting is a traditional form of painting in China, which uses brush strokes dipped in water, ink and color on silk or paper. Tools and materials include brushes, ink, Chinese painting pigments, rice paper, silk and so on. Themes can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. And techniques can be divided into figurative and freehand brushwork. Chinese painting embodies the ancients' cognition of nature, society and its related politics, philosophy, religion, morality, literature and art in content and artistic creation. Chinese painting originated in ancient times, and hieroglyphics laid the foundation; At first, there was no difference between writing and drawing, and the meaning was the same. There is a saying in China that calligraphy and painting are homologous. Some people think that Fuxi's painting hexagrams and Cang Xie's writing hexagrams are groundbreaking. There is no difference between writing and drawing. Pottery is the product of Neolithic Age, which can be divided into black pottery, white pottery and painted pottery. On painted pottery unearthed in banpo village, an important Neolithic site, fish chased each other and deer jumped. A boat-shaped clay pot unearthed in Yongjing, Gansu, makes us feel like we are on the shore. There are also three groups of five people walking hand in hand on the dance color basin found in Sunjiazhai, Datong, Qinghai, which shows the vitality of youth and is the foundation of studying the history of Chinese painting. In the late Neolithic period, the earliest bronzes in China were found in Xindian and Longshan cultural sites, which were both artifacts and arts and crafts. Common bronze decorative patterns include Yantun pattern, Yun Leiwen, Kuiwen, Dragon pattern and Tiger pattern. And the human body is also a useful decorative pattern. The double-nail-made pattern with a curly tail is very beautiful.