Author(s)

Yi Li

Corresponding Author

Yi Li

Abstract

The paintings of Chinese painting, after thousands of years of vicissitudes, still have such a shocking and touching charm. The reason is because of its rich internal cultural connotations and unique external forms. The philosophical thinking of the Five Elements and China’s political economy, ideology and culture for thousands of years have influenced and infiltrated each other, which has become the core and skeleton of traditional Chinese culture and has had a major impact on the spread and development of Chinese painting. The various constituent elements of Chinese painting creation can be divided into five aspects: conception, content and subject matter, style, composition, and technique. If corresponding to the theories of the five elements, the corresponding relations are: "Fire" corresponds to "conception", "Soil" corresponds to "content and subject matter", "wood" corresponds to "style", "metal" corresponds to "composition", and "water" corresponds to "techniques". The profound relationship between the philosophy of five elements and Chinese painting art has become the ideological orientation of Chinese painting theory.

Keywords

Five Elements Theory, Chinese Painting, Painting Creation, Chinese Philosophy