Second, the inscription of calligraphy and painting is a part of the work. Its content, form and position should be closely coordinated with the work. Books, paintings, inscriptions and seal cutting are interrelated and benefit from each other, becoming a unified whole.
Written in books, rubbings, calligraphy and painting works, stories, textual research versions and origins. The words written in front of the work are generally called "questions" and the words behind them are called "postscript". In the Qing Dynasty, Duan Yucai's Notes on Explaining Words and Characters said: "The subject, the former bidder, and the later writer." It refers to the inscriptions on books, paintings and books, including titles, comments, textual research and notes. The genre includes prose, poetry and ci. Shen Kuo's "Meng Qian Bi Tan" was published for five years in the Northern Song Dynasty: "Tang Zhaozong was fortunate in Huazhou and wrote three chapters of the poem" Bodhisattva Man ". Today, this poem is still in a Buddhist temple in Shaanxi. I stayed in Shaanxi for a long time and once saw it. There are many axe inscriptions in later generations. " As for the inscription on the picture frame, Wang Guan's Biography of Mustard Garden in the Qing Dynasty said: "Before the Yuan Dynasty, there was no money, or there was a hidden stone gap, fearing that the book was not refined, which hurt the ears of the painting bureau. Speaking of Ni Yunlin, it is easy to use a postscript at the end of a poem, or a poem after a postscript. Wen Hengshan's lines are clear and neat, Shen's brushwork is scattered, his poems are strange and horizontal, and Chen Boyang's inscription is written. "