What was the status of painters in the Yuan Dynasty?

Before the Song Dynasty, traditional Chinese painting had been dominated by draughtsmen's painting. Although literati painting in the Song Dynasty achieved an authenticated status and was very influential, it still remained incomparable in power to that of the painters' painting. In the Yuan Dynasty, the rulers abolished the painting academies, and the painters had no place to stay, so the craftsmen's paintings began to fall into disrepair. In addition, this period of the literati in the political and cultural aspects of the Ministry of the ruler by the cold, so the main time and energy into the painting, in order to express the unrecognized talent or resistance against foreigners and the rich and powerful thoughts and feelings, to express their own chest, thus creating the highest achievement of the literati painting in the history of Chinese painting, and make the literati painting become the mainstream of the history of painting.