How to mount Chinese painting

A complete Chinese painting needs to be more beautiful and easy to preserve, circulate and collect, so it is impossible to mount it. Because most Chinese paintings are painted on fragile rice paper or silk articles. Mounting, also known as "mounting", "mounting pool" and "mounting back", is a unique technology to protect and beautify calligraphy and painting inscriptions in China. Just like western oil paintings, they should be put into exquisite frames after completion, so as to achieve a higher artistic aesthetic feeling.

Mounting can be divided into original mounting and re-mounting. Mounting the original painting is to mount the new painting according to the mounting procedure. Re-mounting is to mount the calligraphy and painting handed down from generation to generation and published on it because of poor original mounting or poor management and storage, such as shelling, damp mildew, rot, moth-eaten, rat bite and other reasons. The framed paintings and calligraphy are firm and beautiful, and easy to collect and decorate. Re-mounted ancient paintings will also continue its vitality. The ancients said: "The restoration of historical sites will delay medical treatment ... doctors will rise at will if they are good, and they will die at will if they are not good."

So what is the procedure for mounting Chinese paintings? Generally, it is first mounted on the back of the painting with paper support, and then wrapped with twisted, silk, paper, etc. , and then installed as a layout. Traditional mounting is varied, but its finished products can be divided into three categories: hanging shafts, hand scrolls and picture books. No matter the size, shape and use of the original picture, there are only three steps: painting heart, embedding and mounting. It's just that the mounting of painting heart is an important process in the whole decoration process. It is quite difficult to re-mount old paintings and calligraphy. Tear down the old painting first, clean the mold, fill the hole, etc. , and then re-mount according to the mounting process of the new painting.

China's mounting technique came into being with the history of China's painting. According to the historical data preserved today, mounting technology appeared as early as 1500 years ago, and there are written records on the production of grain paste, anti-corrosion, selection of mounting paper, decontamination, repair and yellowing of ancient paintings. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhou Jia wrote Decorative Records, and in the Qing Dynasty, he learned to write Tuesday Corner, both of which are China's special works on mounting.