He wrote a poem on a famous painting that spread to the straight road: stone is as white as flying, bamboo should be written in eight ways. If anyone can learn this, you should know that painting and calligraphy are the same. Here, Zhao Mengfu emphasized that China's painting should replace "description" with "writing" and draw with calligraphy.
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The boundless sky, the round earth and all the tangible and colorful Vientiane are the foundation of calligrapher's ingenuity, the source of creation and of course the source of artist's creation. The existence of nature is reasonable: the clouds in the sky fly in summer, and the mountains on the ground are full of spring water; Plants are spinning and spitting green, and animals are running and hiding; It is sunny in the morning, cloudy at night, stormy and snowy, all of which are in line with the great wisdom of the universe and contain a harmonious nature. Harmony is the core of the great beauty of heaven and earth.
Painters observe it, appreciate it, understand it, and form all kinds of pen and ink. The painter has a pen base to turn everything into reality, and the calligrapher has a brilliant mind to walk the dragon and snake. Calligraphy and painting are of the same origin. In my opinion, they are not Oracle Bone Inscriptions or hieroglyphics. This "source" refers to the source, the most essential source in artistic creation-nature, which is the self-evident beauty of heaven and earth.