Xiong Guoying took ancient pictographs as the fulcrum and followed the theory of "painting and calligraphy are of the same origin", which opened up an unprecedented road of painting and calligraphy innovation. Its value is not only a few unique paintings and calligraphy, but also a greater historical value lies in creating a generation precedent for painting with pictographs. ● "Ink Color Book" has changed the routine of calligraphy in black and white for thousands of years, and brought black and white art into the color world! "Image-character painting and calligraphy" reproduces the theory of painting and calligraphy homology, and opens up a new vision of "non-character is not painting, but also painting with words"! "Illustration of Ancient Chinese Characters" won the National Excellent Ancient Books and the National "Three Hundred" Awards! ● Rocky paving "coral body" derived from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and bamboo slips!
"Pictograph" refers to a method of creating characters that describes the shape of physical objects. It is the word "painting" which means "painting into its own thing, following the body" (in the language of Shuo Wen Jie Zi). Generally speaking, it is to depict the shape of an object with simple lines. Now, "pictographic characters" generally refer to single characters carved and cast on tortoise shells, animal bones and bronze wares like some animals, human bodies, plants, buildings, astronomical phenomena and so on. Such as: people, ghosts, sun, moon, mountains, water, cars, horses, grass, wood and so on. In Shuo Wen Jie Zi, although pictograph and knowing, referring to things, pictophonetic sound, borrowing and annotation are classified into six ways of word-making, the roots (radicals) of the other five kinds are also composed of pictographic characters. For example, the "disease" of "knowing the word" is a positive "person" and a "arrow" that hits people in A and Jin inscriptions; The word "Ben" in "Zhi Shi 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 a "expert" on the right who turns the ear by hand. As for the classes of "borrowing" and "transferring notes", it was originally borrowed from the existing glyphs for its use. For example, walking "walking" A and Jinwen are like a crossroads extending in all directions, indicating that you can walk. Later, it was used as the "line" of the industry; Another example is the word "long". Both A and Jin Wen are like a long-haired chang, which is used as the "long" for long hair and the "long" for the elderly with a long life. Or because long hair grows out gradually, it also indicates the length of growth. Later, although Qin unified the script into Xiao Zhuan and transferred it into modern script, the pictographic characters gradually faded visually, but their roots still did not escape from the pictographic category. It can be said that Chinese characters in China have evolved from ancient pictographs to this day.