唐张彦远《历代名画记》曰：“运墨而五色具。”这是中国美术史上一个重要的美学范畴,精辟地总结了中国山水画有别于其他文化中的绘画传统的独特美学品格。所谓“五色”,即墨色之焦、浓、重、淡、清,而每一种墨色又有干、湿、浓、淡的变化。后人推衍扩充,又有墨分六色之说,清唐岱《绘事发微》云：“墨色之中,分为六彩。何为六彩?黑、白、干、湿、浓、淡是也。”又云：“墨有六彩,而使黑白不分,是无阴阳明暗； Tang Zhang Yan Yuan “The Famous Paintings of All Dynasties” reads: “The Movement of Ink and the Five Colors.” This is an important category of aesthetics in the history of Chinese art, which brilliantly summarizes the unique aesthetic qualities of Chinese landscape paintings that are different from the traditional painting traditions in other cultures. The so-called “five-color”, that is, ink color of the coke, concentrated, heavy, light, clear, and each ink has dry, wet, thick, light changes. Descendants extended deduction, there are six different colors of ink, the Qing dynasty Dai “painted matters”: “ink color is divided into six colors. What is six-color? Black, white, Light is also. ”And said:" There are six-color ink, leaving black and white regardless, there is no shade of yin and yang;