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The main categories of China's traditional painting. From the perspective of art history, we all know that Chinese painting before the Republic of China was an ancient painting. Chinese painting has no definite name in ancient times, and it is generally called history, which mainly refers to painting on silk painting, painting paper, silk painting and scroll mounting. In order to distinguish foreign paintings such as oil paintings (also known as western paintings) imported from the west since modern times, it is called Chinese painting, and it is called "Chinese painting". It is a painting created with China's unique brush, ink and painting, in accordance with the long-term form of expression and artistic law. Chinese painting can be divided into ink painting, rich and light crimson painting, meticulous painting, freehand brushwork and line drawing according to its materials and expression methods. ; According to its theme, there are people painting, landscape painting, flower-and-bird painting, etc. There are various forms of Chinese painting, such as long books (also called calligraphy) horizontally, nave horizontally, nave vertically, rolled pages and squares with extra feet, folding fans and round fans in painting, etc. On the noodles. China's painting reflects the social consciousness and aesthetic taste of the Chinese nation in ideological content and artistic creation, and embodies China people's interests in nature, society, politics, philosophy, religion, morality and literature. The ability to understand.