"Qin" refers to playing the piano (mostly guqin), "chess" refers to playing chess (mostly Weiqi and China chess), "book" refers to calligraphy, and "painting" refers to painting.
Chyi Chin's calligraphy and painting refers to four kinds of ancient artistic relics or skills, such as harps, weiqi and colors of calligraphy and painting, which are also called elegant people and four excellent products. Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting all originated in the period of "Three Emperors and Five Emperors" (2607-265438 BC+065438 BC+00 BC). Arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy: Pythagoras regarded these four subjects as "four arts".
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1. Guqin, also known as lyre, Qin Yu and lyre, is one of the oldest plucked instruments in China. Guqin is a popular musical instrument in the period of Confucius, with a written history of more than 4000 years. According to historical records, it appeared no later than the Yao and Shun period.
2. "Chess" in Qinqi calligraphy and painting refers to Go, also known as Chess, which originated in ancient China and is a strategic two-person chess game, in which checkered chessboards and black and white pieces are used to play. At present, Weiqi is popular in East Asian countries (mainly China, Japan and South Korea) and covers the whole world. It is a very popular board game.
3. Calligraphy, usually called "China Calligraphy", is a unique traditional Chinese character art in China. Calligraphy in a broad sense refers to the writing rules of language symbols. In other words, calligraphy refers to writing with its brushwork, structure and composition according to the characteristics and significance of words, making it a beautiful work of art.
4, Chinese painting, divided strokes and freehand brushwork, these are two different forms of expression, meticulous meticulous painting, color rendering layer upon layer, the details are clear and nuanced, so we should use extremely delicate brushwork to describe objects.
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