"Pictographic painting and calligraphy" refers to a kind of calligraphy art formed by a word-making method that depicts the shape of physical objects. It is the word "painting", which means "painting as it is, with it" (in the language of Shuo Wen Jie Zi). Generally speaking, it is to draw the shape of an object with simple lines. At present, "pictographic characters" generally refer to individual characters carved on tortoise shells, animal bones and bronzes like some animals, human bodies, plants, buildings and astronomical phenomena. Such as people, ghosts, the sun, the moon, mountains, water, cars, horses, grass, wood and so on. In Shuo Wen Jie Zi, although pictographic characters and knowing, referring to things, pictophonetic characters, borrowing sound and turning sound are divided into six word-formation ways, the word Ben in other Shi Zhi Zi is also composed of a tree with a "one" pointing in the direction of the root; In pictophonetic characters, there is a "person" on the left and an "expert" on the right who turns his ears by hand.
Pictographs are drawn as follows: