As a work of art on paper or silk, scroll painting has a long history in China, with strong national style and characteristics of the times. With the change of time, there are not many scroll paintings in ancient times. Modern people can only feel the elegance of ancient literati and the traditional culture of the Chinese nation according to the existing scroll paintings. Scroll painting has been endowed with new contents in the great development of modern civilization, which has both collection value and home decoration function. The mounting form of scroll painting is also very particular, and different uses have different mounting forms, so we should pay attention to it.

Mounting form of scroll painting

In the history of painting and calligraphy mounting in China, it can be divided into two categories: wall hanging and desk viewing. Scroll painting, on the other hand, belongs to hanging painting and occupies an important position in hanging painting calligraphy and painting. Scroll paintings hanging on the wall are in the form of screen bars, nave, cross-dressing and so on.

Screen strips are four, six, eight or even twelve vertical calligraphy and paintings of the same specification, assembled into a hall and mounted into four, six, eight fan screens or even twelve screens. This kind of calligraphy and painting is a scroll with heaven and earth poles hanging side by side. The banner main hall is also a scroll calligraphy and painting, but it is only a single vertical long banner calligraphy and painting. Painting hearts are large and small, and the specifications are changeable. The heart of some calligraphy and painting is close to a square or even horizontal. This kind of calligraphy and painting is more colorful than screens and pairs in mounting form and color. Anti-cross calligraphy and painting is a kind of long scroll painting, with a horizontal painting hanging on the wall, and the mounting form is slightly simpler than nave's calligraphy and painting. Cross-string calligraphy and painting hearts have specifications and sizes. All of the above are scroll paintings.

Ancient scroll paintings

China's scroll painting began in Wei and Jin Dynasties. The existing Gu Kaizhi's "The Picture of Female History" and "The Picture of Luoshen" are the earliest scroll paintings that can be seen at present. The achievements of China's scroll painting are embodied in figures, landscapes and flowers and birds.

China's ancient scroll figure painting has reached the peak of China's ancient figure painting after the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty since Gu Kaizhi's A History of Women in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, figure painting declined relatively.

Silk paintings of Chu tombs in the Warring States Period are the earliest independent paintings discovered in China. They are 1949 and 1973, respectively, the silk paintings of dragons and phoenixes unearthed from the Chu Tomb of Chenjiadashan in Changsha, Hunan Province, which are regarded as "Ming Jing" with the theme of evoking the soul to heaven.

Paintings in Wei and Jin Dynasties: Gu Kaizhi's Painting Theory, Wei Jinsheng's Painting Praise and Painting Yuntai Mountain; Zong Bing's Preface to Painting Landscape, Wang Wei's Narrative Painting; Sheikh's catalogue of ancient paintings, Yao Zui's continued paintings, etc.

Before choosing the mounting form of the scroll, we must first make clear its purpose, whether it is for decoration or collection. Whether the decoration is in the study or office, public place or private space. Choose the style and content of scroll painting after synthesizing various factors. For scroll paintings, the price level can't really divide them into three, six and nine, because the content expressed by each scroll painting is unique, and each scroll painting has its own scenery.