The philosophical background of Chinese art is the suggestiveness. When the words and rhymes in poetry, or the lines and colors in painting are used, it is the suggestiveness of them, not their denotations and connotations, that reveals the Tao.
超越工具，不受器物所辖，获得自由。中国艺术，如诗歌，墨画等皆是以暗指性的哲学背景来传达深意。
