There were calligraphers in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Landscape painting was not formed until Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and pure landscape painting appeared in Tang Dynasty. There is no necessary connection between the two. But it was later engraved. There is also calligraphy on the painting.
landscape
Referred to as "landscape". Chinese painting with landscape as the main description object. It was formed in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, but it has not been completely separated from figure painting. Independent in the Sui and Tang Dynasties and mature in the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, it became an important branch of Chinese painting. Traditionally, it is divided into green landscape, golden landscape, ink landscape, light crimson landscape, small green landscape and boneless landscape according to painting style.
Ink landscape painting
From the prosperous Tang Dynasty to the late Tang Dynasty, painters were not satisfied with the existing landscape painting language, and tried to open up a new artistic language-ink painting. Wu Daozi, an outstanding craftsman, wrote sparse landscapes with pen and ink. The poet Wang Wei used "ink painting" to show the landscape of Wangchuan with "poetry in painting", and the broken ink landscape began to appear. Subsequently, Bi Hong, Zheng Qian, Wang Mo and other splash-ink landscape painters appeared, which gradually formed the artistic language of ink landscape and established the trend of paying attention to developing individuality. None of these masters' excellent ink paintings survive in the world. Today, we can see the ink painting style of folk craftsmen on the murals in the Tang Dynasty, which shows that this has formed a certain fashion in the Tang Dynasty.