What are the three main categories of Chinese paintings according to their subject matter?

1. Flower and Bird Paintings

It is a kind of Chinese paintings that depicts flowers, birds, insects and so on. In Chinese painting, any painting that depicts flowers, birds, fish and insects is called flower and bird painting. There are three kinds of painting methods in flower and bird painting, namely, "brushwork", "writing" and "both work and writing".

2, landscape painting

Chinese painting, one of the unique painting. In the Wei, Jin, and North and South Dynasties, it was gradually separated from figure painting to form an independent painting material, and it was fully matured in the Tang Dynasty.

Shanshui painting is endowed with the essence of nature, heaven and earth, so the yin and yang, obscurity, sunshine and rain, heat and cold, morning and evening, day and night have endless interesting. Although there are many landscape painters from the Six Dynasties to Tang, their brushwork, location is very ancient.

3, figure painting

Figure painting strives to characterize the personality of the characters portrayed realistically and vividly, the shape of God. The method of expression, often the performance of the character, in the environment, atmosphere, stature and dynamic rendering. Therefore, in Chinese painting theory, figure painting is also called "Transfiguration". p>Chinese painting has a long history, before the Song Dynasty, drawing on silk, the material is expensive, so the subject matter of Chinese paintings are mostly portraits of aristocrats in the royal court or record of life, until the Song Dynasty, the improvement of the paper material, the promotion of the literati painting with the literati painting of the scholars and so on, so that the subject matter of Chinese paintings are diversified, the inscription of poems on the paintings for the beginning of the painting and calligraphy of the same origin.

After the Ming Dynasty, painting was popularized to the public and became a part of people's life, hence the emergence of genre painting. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, as the Western style spread to the east, painting materials became more diversified and elements of Western painting were added, leading to a multifaceted development.