How to draw mountains in ancient poetry

The mountains in ancient poems are often the most artistic scenery. To express the mountain, we need to combine the pine trees, fog, water vapor, waterfalls and other landscapes on the mountain to comprehensively express it, so as to reflect the straightness of the mountain and the feeling of fog.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, landscape painting gradually developed, but it was still attached to figure painting, mostly with figure painting as the background. Independence began in Sui and Tang Dynasties, such as Zhan Ziqian's colorful landscape, Li Sixun's Jinbi landscape, Wang Wei's ink landscape and Wang Qia's splash-ink landscape. Become a major painting theme of Chinese painting; Landscape painting in Yuan Dynasty tends to be freehand brushwork, taking virtual as reality, focusing on the charm of pen and ink, and creating a new style; Ming and Qing dynasties and modern times, continuous development, a new look. Pay attention to the professional position and artistic conception in the performance. The traditional methods are ink painting, turquoise, resplendent, boneless, light red, light color and so on.

There are often many ways to draw mountains in Chinese painting. Drawing rocks is divided into five steps: hooking, rubbing, dyeing and pointing. From the shape of rocks, there are stones, stone slopes, stone walls, stone cliffs and peaks. Judging from the structure of rocks, there are two kinds: earth mountains and stone mountains. Different rocks and structures determine different expression techniques, thus forming different styles and schools. There are hemp, broken belt, untied rope, cow hair, cirrus clouds, axe chop, watercress, nails and so on. These are the brushwork symbols extracted by ancient painters in their long-term observation of natural phenomena.

Using rubbings is a way to supplement the performance of rocks to make up for the lack of rocks. The point is at the junction of mountain and mountain, stone and stone, showing the level of rock.

Dyeing refers to painting on rocks with ink or color, but not flat painting. It should be developed according to the ups and downs, light and shade and brushstrokes of rocks, so as to show the significance of using a pen.

The shapes of rocks are mainly arc and square. The former is mostly used by the southern faction, while the latter is mostly used by the northern faction.