The Harmony In The Traditional Chinese Painting

This article discusses on the performance of traditional Chinese painting"harmony". The"harmony"thinking is the essence of traditional Chinese culture, and it is affecting all aspects of the traditional culture and the arts. Many aspects of traditional Chinese painting can be used"harmony"to illustrate. The overall presentation of traditional Chinese painting is a harmonious, smooth lines, or with rich overtones and elegant use of concord and color. The ancients outline the ages, everything in heaven and earth with unprecedented lofty ordinary heart, showing the broad inclusive feeling of them. Both the description of the ancient pro events depicted cavalier perspective or the use of different space and time or the ink set in a dense landscape screen view are the most of the external manifestations of"harmony".The ancients thought that: the generate of"harmony"is by the principle of unity of opposites, that is, the traditional Chinese philosophy,"vitality"principle, the traditional painting followed the black and white, actual situation, concealment and revelation, loose and tight, weight, size and other unity of opposites law. There are many contradictory elements of unity in Chinese traditional painting, this unity does not fall marks just right."Point"and"line"are the two different elements of the painting now, but in the traditional painting they are the same. The traditional painting is implicit to expression the bloody war and contradictory theme."Harmony"promotes the traditional concept of the traditional painting from the opposition to reunification.Traditional Chinese"harmony"performance has a profound thought root. The thought of harmony has different performance in the three pillars of traditional Chinese thought: Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. Confucianism's"benevolence"and"courtesy"of traditional Chinese painting for restricting the exaggerated expression of emotion; Confucianism for the character, high moral character required to promote the artist through the"harmony"in the way of natural expression of inner calm and self-cultivation. The yin-yang theory of Taoist annotated the unity of opposites in the way to realize"harmony", to achieve a profound and simple harmony. Buddhists seek"fate", forged by the artist and all the"good fortune"that made thousands things of the world around the artist to sentiment and written down, that is quiet on the screen, auspicious environment.This paper is divided into three parts .The first part is the existence of the thought of"harmony". This part discussed the existence of"harmony"in traditional Chinese painting. It can be said that the existence of"harmony"ran through all aspects of traditional Chinese painting. Harmony of content, theme, line, time and space created an overall sense of traditional painting. The harmony of ink painting demonstrated the"style"of traditional Chinese painting. The second part is the generation of Harmony. How the thought of harmony is generated? It is generated through the interaction of the unity and the opposites. This is reflected in the content of the struggle of painting-the inharmonious"harmony". The third part is the source of harmony. This part deeply discussed the cultural connotation of harmony. The thought of harmony has different performance in the traditional Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. These different performances, reflected in the works of paintings, have a variety of external appearances.Ancestors of the Chinese enjoy a comfortable life style of"Work as sun rise, rest as sun set."However, thousand of years are just like a white pony's shadow across a crevice, today we are distressed by the sense of urgency brought about by the times. In fact, it is ourselves, not moon and stars that changed. Let us open a beautiful picture thousand of years ago and look for the harmony of the heart and look for ourselves.