Li Lun and ink calligraphy, Li Lun.

Ink calligraphy, as its name implies, is called ink calligraphy as long as there is the interaction between water and ink and the depth of strokes changes. Ink calligraphy is a very extensive art category, which not only inherits the contrast that can be formed by a single pen and ink such as the thickness, dry brush and embellishment of traditional calligraphy, but also increases the contrast of shades. Thus, the interaction of dark, light, dry and wet coke is completely formed, which produces rich artistic expression. Ink calligraphy's expressive force is extremely strong, and it is an important category in calligraphy art.

Ink calligraphy originated from the application of inscriptions in painting. In order to meet the needs of painting, the shades of words should be moderate, not too bright. Because ink is written in ink, the color of ink will change during the writing process, thus forming ink calligraphy's early works. Since the Yuan Dynasty, there have been Chinese paintings with ink calligraphy as the inscription. In modern times, the west wind spread to the east, and painters explored diversified expression techniques. Due to the decline of traditional literati painting, highlighting the picture and downplaying the text has become the choice of many painters, which makes ink calligraphy widely used in painting.

However, among pure calligraphy works, ink calligraphy did not form a formal art category until the end of the 20th century, and ink calligraphy's works since the last century still remained at the level of artistic composition and techniques. The works are only works of individual characters and cannot be applied to common Chinese characters. Most of them just use ink painting like painting, which is mainly based on painting, which deviates from the fundamental feature of calligraphy, that is, "writing". More than half of the works even ignore whether the characters have aesthetic feeling and are divorced from artistic aesthetics and practicality. So early ink calligraphy was still in an immature stage. 2/KLOC-Since the 20th century, under the leadership of Bai Xu, director of China Book Association, director of exhibition department and secretary-general of judging committee, he has conducted in-depth research and summary on ink calligraphy, and published relevant works, which made ink calligraphy enter the mainstream vision and won the admiration of the art world. Later, with the enrichment and development of artists such as Li Lun, ink calligraphy's techniques and performances gradually matured, making ink calligraphy an important category of calligraphy art in China.

Li Lun is the driving force of ink calligraphy, and his hand-ink calligraphy has also opened up a new space for ink calligraphy.