Of. Brush Evolution And The Development Of Chinese Painting

The traditional Chinese realistic painting has the huge history. It always keeps his unique painting characteristic and aesthetics. The brush pen is the basic tool for Chinese realistic painting. Therefore, every evolution of the brush pen affects the development of Chinese realistic painting. Not only does the evolvement of the brush pen improve the technique of Chinese realistic painting, but also the development of Chinese realistic painting promotes the evolvement of brush pen. Both they involve each other.The origin of brush pen is traced about five to six thousand years ago. The brush pen is invented at the Neolithic Age. To date, people found the earliest brush pen appeared in the Warring States Period. People deduced the brush pen was in the initial stage of conformation in the period of the Warring States Period from the excavated Chinese realistic silk paintings. During the period of Qin and Han Dynasties, the brush pen had formed basic shape and structure. During the period of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern dynasties, the rise of the traditional Chinese realistic painting promoted the progress on the technique for the brush pen's producing. Especially "Wei Yan's Brush Pen Technique" progressed extremely in the technique of the brush pen's producing. Furthermore, The Sui and Tang Dynasties are the period that both Chinese technique of brush pen's producing and the realistic painting flourished. At the same time the industry of brush pen's producing in Xuan Zhou developed rapidly. During the period of the Five Dynasties, Southern and Northern Song Dynasty, the industry of brush pen's producing was more flourishing than that in Sui and Tang dynasties. "Wu Xin San Zhuo Brush pen" symbolized the another important development; The division work on the traditional Chinese realistic painting in Song Dynasty drove the profession for the brush pen...