The heyday of ancient flower-and-bird painting in China

Song Dynasty was the peak of "flower-and-bird sketch" in ancient China, and many outstanding flower-and-bird painters appeared. Since the rise of literati painting, flower-and-bird painting has put more emphasis on borrowing things to express emotion and supporting things to express emotion. In Yuan Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu advocated painting with calligraphy. Ming and Qing painters attached importance to feeling life, observing nature and expressing their own spirit in freehand flower-and-bird paintings, and were not satisfied with copying the artistic conception and emotional appeal of predecessors, and did not stick to the art of misappropriating ancient laws, which reflected the aesthetic purport respected by literati painters. In the style of ink painting technique, it broke through the old program and expanded the performance field of freehand brushwork flower-and-bird painting.