佛教经过两千多年的传播与发展,与中国儒家、道家的传统思想和思辨方式的相互激荡、不断交融过程中形成了禅宗。明代董其昌完成了总结禅宗与绘画之间关系的任务,提出“以禅喻画”思想。清初“四僧”受该思想的影响,将“以禅喻画”融入到个人理论、绘画创作中,赋予中国画新的思想,在那个时代显现出独特的画风。 After more than two thousand years of Buddhism’s spread and development, Buddhism and the traditional Confucianism and Taoism of Chinese traditional thinking and speculative ways of mutual turmoil, the process of continuous integration Zen. Dong Qichang completed the task of summarizing the relationship between Zen and painting in the Ming Dynasty, and put forward the idea of ​​“painting Zen with metaphor”. In the early days of the Qing Dynasty, influenced by this thought, “Four Monks” integrated “into Buddhism” into personal theory and painting creation, giving new ideas to Chinese painting and displaying a unique style of painting at that time.