The four hobbies of elegant people are chess, calligraphy and painting.
1. Qin: flute, erhu, guzheng, Xiao, drum, guqin, and pipa. "Jasmine".
2. Chess: Chinese chess, Chinese Go, games, chess pieces, chess boards, etc.
3. Calligraphy (calligraphy, seal cutting): Chinese calligraphy, seal cutting sound, the four treasures of the study (brush, ink, inkstone, rice paper), woodblock watermarks, oracle bone inscriptions, bells and tripods, Han Dynasty bamboo slips, vertical wire-bound books, Chinese characters wait.
4. Painting (painting): Traditional Chinese painting (landscape painting, flower-and-bird painting, figure painting, freehand painting, etc.), modern Chinese painting (Chinese abstract oil painting, Chinese abstract traditional Chinese painting, etc.), Dunhuang murals, Eight Horses, Tai Chi Picture (Tai Chi) etc.
The ancient saying of "the four good things of an elegant man" refers to music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Playing the qin (mostly playing the guqin), playing chess (mostly Go and Chinese chess), calligraphy, and painting are skills that literati and poets (including some famous ladies) must master for self-cultivation, so they are collectively called qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, or the "four literati" friend".
The Four Good Things of Yaren
The most important painting at that time was what we call Chinese painting, which is a kind of ink landscape painting. It is also a picture that can understand ancient things now, and such four Fortunately, it is a fusion of ancient Chinese art, and it is enough to feel the long history of Chinese culture in the Four Hao of Chinese Yaren. The Four Hao are now on the list of intangible cultural heritage.
The ancient "four good people" have left us a lot of historical witnesses, no matter what we can see. There is more to the inheritance of culture. We can see many historical stories in the calligraphy and painting works that have been handed down, and there is a sense of dialogue between ancient and modern people. And there are still many skills that have been handed down. A place that cannot be surpassed.