本文依据与本课题有关的历史文献,考证谢赫“六法”的本义,推倒钱锺书依据明代书肆刻本的断句及其解读,指出谢赫出自东晋名门谢氏家族,“六法”成于六朝宋、齐之际。“六法”的理论背景是当时盛行的人相学和五行学,本义针对的是人物画,后来的衍生义才针对各种画科。 Based on the historical documents related to this subject, this paper studies the original meaning of Xie He and “Six Laws” and overthrows Qian Zhongshu’s sentences and their interpretations based on the textbooks of the Ming Dynasty, pointing out that Sheikh’s Xie Family from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Into the Six Dynasties Song, Qi occasion. The theoretical background of the “Six Laws” was the popular anthropology and the five elements learning of the time. The original meaning was aimed at figure painting, and the subsequent derivative works were directed at various subjects.