Chinese painting can be divided into three categories.

Figure painting, landscape painting, flower-and-bird painting

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In ancient times, Chinese painting did not have a clear name, and it was generally called Danqing, which mainly refers to scroll painting painted on silk and paper and mounted. It is called Chinese painting in modern times, which is different from foreign paintings such as oil paintings (also known as western paintings) imported from the west. It is a painting created by China's unique pen and ink and pigments according to the long-term expression and artistic law. Chinese painting can be subdivided into ink painting, heavy color, light crimson, meticulous painting, freehand brushwork and line drawing according to its materials and expression methods. According to their themes, there are figure paintings, landscape paintings and flower-and-bird paintings.

There are various forms of Chinese painting, such as long scrolls (also known as hand scrolls) and horizontal curtains, banners and nave, album pages and bucket squares, folding fans and round fans painted on fans. Chinese painting reflects the social consciousness and aesthetic taste of the Chinese nation in ideological content and artistic creation, and embodies China people's understanding of nature, society and politics, philosophy, religion, morality, literature and art related to it.

Chinese painting is a traditional painting of the Chinese nation. It has a long history and fine traditions, embodies the wisdom, personality, psychology and temperament of the Chinese nation, and is unique in the world of painting with its distinctive characteristics and styles. The traditional painting form of Han nationality is to paint on silk or paper with a brush dipped in water, ink and color. This kind of painting is called "Chinese painting" or "Chinese painting" for short. Traditional painting in China (different from "Western painting"). Tools and materials include brush, ink, Chinese painting pigments, rice paper, silk and so on. Themes can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. Techniques can be divided into brushwork and freehand brushwork, and its spiritual core is "pen and ink". Chinese painting, Chinese painting and Xuan painting are synonyms.