Inscription is not random, but it is also an integral part of the picture for the painter, so sometimes it is better to seal it without asking questions, so as not to destroy the picture. Sometimes it is through Daimonji to adjust the center of gravity, space, white cloth and so on. For example, most of Wu Changshuo's paintings!
Before the Song Dynasty, there was no inscription on China's paintings. Even if there is a painter's name, it is written in the most hidden place. For example, The Journey to the West in Fan Kuan is in the leaves at the lower right of the picture, which seems to have been discovered by experts from the National Palace Museum in Taiwan until the 1950s. It can be seen that it is hidden! Later, I gradually got a painting name (painting name)
Later, literati painting flourished, and literati wrote poems after painting to improve the painting environment. As for painting place names, the fashion at that time was mainly in the Ming Dynasty, presumably related to the commercialization of calligraphy and painting.