Xuan paper is a special paper for creating Chinese paintings. It is produced in Jingxian County, Anhui Province, and has a history of thousands of years. Xuan paper can be divided into two categories: raw Xuan paper and cooked Xuan paper. Raw rice paper is dizzy, with strong water absorption and fast ink color penetration, which is suitable for expressing a kind of freehand brushwork Chinese painting.
Cooked Xuan is Xuan paper made of alum on the basis of raw Xuan. Cooked Xuan does not absorb water, and is suitable for repeated ink cover and color development. It is the most rational paper for creating China meticulous painting. Xuan paper is divided into cotton material and clean skin (including ultra-clean skin) according to the raw materials of paper operation. Cotton paper is mainly straw, and the net skin is mainly sandalwood skin. The content of cotton and clean skin determines the properties of paper.
Xuan paper can be roughly divided into three types: raw Xuan, cooked Xuan and half-life Xuan.
What Xuan paper is good for landscape painting depends on what landscape painting you draw. If you paint freehand landscapes, use life to promote them; When you draw a fine brushwork of a green landscape, you can use it to announce it. The cooked propaganda is treated with alum, and the ink is not easy to penetrate. Therefore, the painting is neat and meticulous, and can be repeatedly rendered and colored. It is suitable for painting green and colorful meticulous landscapes, showing a brilliant artistic effect. Shengxuan is unprocessed, with strong water absorption and hydrophilicity, and it is easy to produce rich Mo Yun changes. By splashing and accumulating ink, the artistic effect of collecting water, blooming ink and emphasizing color is achieved. Used for freehand brushwork.
Generally, beginners like to use semi-cooked rice paper, because it not only has Mo Yun changes, but also is not very transparent. It is easy to master rubbing, wiping, tracing and dyeing, and can show complex and rich brushwork and ink interest.
Xuan paper can be divided into single Xuan and double Xuan according to its thickness. The single announcement is thinner, and the folder announcement is thicker. Good selection is suitable for painting landscapes, which is better than single selection and can be rubbed repeatedly.
Xuan paper is also divided into cotton material and clean skin. Cotton material is suitable for writing calligraphy, and has strong skin cleaning ability, and is suitable for painting landscape paintings.