A Brief Introduction of "Xu Huang I" in China's Painting History.

As a famous proposition in the history of China painting, "Xu Huangyi" expresses the differences between the two flower-and-bird painting schools, represented by Huang Quan in Western Shu and Xu Xi in Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties and Early Song Dynasty. Huang Quan, a court painter in the Five Dynasties, was good at making exquisite flowers and birds, while Xu Xi, a scholar-bureaucrat in the Southern Tang Dynasty, was good at thinning wild flowers and birds. These two men had a very important influence on meticulous flower-and-bird painting and freehand flower-and-bird painting in later generations, and their painting history was called "the alien of Huang Xu".