中国绘画由周秦汉唐至宋元明清,其实一直是重视色彩的。有证可考的秦汉时期,作品大多是色彩斑斓的,唐代更有青绿山水的创立,宋人小品的色彩也令人折服,只是到了元代以后,忽视色彩的观点逐渐占了上风,这主要是因为文人画的兴起。崇拜文人文化是中国封建社会的传统,中国的文人传统常常影响宫廷、文学艺术界乃至民间。以水墨画为代表的文人画遂成画界主流,水墨形式逸笔草草的绘画被标榜为上品,其他类型的绘画一般都被贬低和忽视了,这主要原因的确在于文人。文人之于绘画,第一是遣怀,第二是游戏。遣怀则不能太受拘束,游戏更要有趣味。让文人细究技法,踏踏实实地学习基本功,他们就不耐烦了。他们只能以文人最基本最简单的工具和材质——笔、墨、水、纸来完成绘画,这样随意而方便。不料文人却从中找出了独特的审美情趣,更加以诗、书、印的结合,文 Chinese painting by the Zhou Qin Han Tang Zhi Song Ming and Qing Dynasties, in fact, has always been the emphasis on color. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, most of the works were colorful. In the Tang Dynasty, the creation of more green landscapes was convincing. The colors of the Song Dynasty sketches were also convincing. Only after Yuan dynasty did the idea of ​​ignoring color gradually gain the upper hand, Mainly because of the rise of literati painting. The cult of literati is a tradition of feudal society in China. The literati tradition in China often affects the court, the literary and art world, and even the folk. The literati painting represented by ink painting became the mainstream in the field of painting. The painting in the form of ink painting was praised as the top grade. Other types of painting were generally belittled and neglected, mainly because of the literati. Literati in painting, the first is sentient, the second is the game. Depenser can not be too restrained, the game more interesting. Let the literati careful techniques, down to learn basic skills, they are impatient. They can only paint with the simplest tools and materials of literati - pen, ink, water and paper, which are free and easy. Unexpectedly, scholars have found a unique aesthetic taste, more poetry, books, printed combination, the text