The elegance of calligraphy is called Linchi.
The elegant name "Linchi" of calligraphy is related to Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Wang Xizhi practiced calligraphy hard, and every day after writing, he washed his pen and inkstone in the pond in front of his house. After a long time, the water in the pond turned dark black, so people used "Linchi" to mean studying calligraphy hard.
Chinese painting, also known as Chinese painting, is a traditional painting in our country. Because Shi Tianyuan said in the Song Dynasty that "poets regard painting as silent, and poetry as audio painting", painting is elegant and called "silent poetry". In ancient times, everything was called "horizontal life" and people were called "vertical life", so the painting method of depicting objects or landscapes was called "sketching". In addition, because ancient paintings often use cinnabar and green pheasant as pigments, painting has the elegant name of "Danqing".
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the ancient people called calligraphy and painting "calligraphy and painting", which is a general term for calligraphy and painting. They are put together because they are both expressed by lines, and there is a saying that "calligraphy and painting are of the same origin". Among them, the nicknames of calligraphy are Xizi and Linchi, and the elegant names of painting are silent poetry, sketching and painting.
"Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting", collectively known as the four arts, are the skills that a modest gentleman must master since ancient times. Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting have their own elegant nicknames, which often come from allusions and contain rich cultural connotations.