Originally refers to painting.
Know how to keep white and keep ink. Chinese painting, calligraphy, and seal cutting pay most attention to leaving white space. White is the "eye" of the entire painting, indicating good or bad, success or failure, the key, and artistic conception. Freehand brushwork in Chinese painting is most about ink, water, and atmosphere, and breathability should be said to be the most important thing in Chinese painting, which is the "painting eye". If the space is left well, the object image will be integrated with the white, natural and smooth, sparse and orderly. If the white is not painted well, it will be boring, very depressing, disorderly and helpless, which is contrary to natural propriety. "Leave blank" is one of the most important rules in Chinese painting. In addition to paying attention to the skills, composition, rhythm, interspersing and matching of lines, and changes in thickness, calligraphy also emphasizes the entire layout. The quality of the entire layout is determined by white. Seal cutting pays more attention to the changes in density of lines. Dense places can be airtight, while sparse places can be used for sports cars. This is the basic requirement for seal cutting. It can be seen that the quality of "white" will directly affect the effect of these works.
Confucius said: "Know the white and keep the ink." Let's imagine that if we are like painting: our behavior is like the ink that is about to be released, whether we have considered the space, size, and space of the ink that is about to be released. Bo Hou, when calculating gains and losses, can you leave more space and room for the other party? Our own behavior is like a beating ink pen on a white paper, interpreting the composition of mind and measure, self and the overall situation, tolerance and kindness, adjusting the relationship between black and white, completing the harmonious transition between them, and making it into a painting. The artistic conception you seek?