中国画有了真正意义上的题跋,应是唐宋以后的事,因为唐宋以前的画大都是绘在梵宫殿宇或将相府宅的壁照萧墙上,是“助人伦、成教化”的工具。而稍晚绘于绢素上的画也都是无款之作,此习惯一直相沿至两宋,所以我们现今见到宋人无款画也就不为怪了。到了元明时期此风则由于大批文人的介入而有所改变,文人们在案牍或诗词歌咏之余风流倜傥,偶一寄兴翰墨,凭借着满腹经纶和“腹有诗书气自华”的气质,而“聊发胸中逸气耳”。 Chinese painting has a real sense of inscriptions, should be something after the Tang and Song Dynasties, because most of the paintings before the Tang and Song Dynasties are painted in the Vatican Palace or the pharaohs of the walls of the house, is “Tool of. Later on, paintings painted on silk are also moneyless. This habit has always been to the two Songs, so it is no surprise that we now see the Song Dynasty painting without money. In the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the wind changed due to the involvement of a large number of scholars. The literati were still in the midst of cases or poetic songs, Temperament, and ”chat hair chest ethereal ear ".