中国画在古代称为“丹青”。原来丹是朱砂,青是蓝靛,都是古代画幅上常用的颜色,可见在古代绘画上颜色是有重要地位的。而中国画讲用笔,必伴随着用墨,因为笔的表现离不开墨,墨的表现也离不开笔,所谓笔情墨趣,二者实为同一问题的两个方面。 Chinese painting in ancient times called “Dan”. The original Dan is cinnabar, blue is indigo, are commonly used in the ancient frame color, we can see the color in ancient paintings is an important position. Chinese calligraphy pen must be accompanied by ink, because the performance of the pen can not be separated from ink, ink performance is inseparable from the pen, the so-called pen ink, the two are actually two aspects of the same problem.