What does the rooster stand for in Chinese painting?
A cock crows at dawn, and a cock sings the world white. The image of a rooster who is fearless and brave always gives people a sense of excitement. It is also with the dawn of the golden rooster that a new day begins.
The rooster in Chinese painting is elegant in temperament, and the rooster is a common theme in flower-and-bird painting. Hanging a Chinese painting of rooster in the living room or the main hall can make the temperament of the owner stand out day by day. Not only that, but it can also bring good luck and good luck to people.
Chinese painting embodies the traditional philosophy and aesthetics of the Chinese nation in terms of observation and understanding, image shaping and expression techniques. In observing and understanding objective things, we adopt the method of seeing the big from the small and seeing the big from the small, and observe and understand objective things in activities, and even directly participate in things, rather than appearing locally or being limited to a fixed point.
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The word Chinese painting originated in the Han Dynasty. People in the Han Dynasty thought that China lived in heaven and earth, so he called it China. China's paintings were abbreviated as "Chinese paintings". Mainly refers to scroll paintings painted on silk, rice paper and silk and mounted. Chinese painting is a traditional form of painting in China, which uses brush strokes dipped in water, ink and color on silk or paper.
Tools and materials include brushes, ink, Chinese painting pigments, rice paper, silk and so on. Themes can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. And techniques can be divided into figurative and freehand brushwork. Chinese painting embodies the ancients' cognition of nature, society and its related politics, philosophy, religion, morality, literature and art in content and artistic creation.
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