Information about Chinese painting?

The word Chinese painting originated in the Han Dynasty. People in the Han Dynasty thought that China lived in heaven and earth, so he called it China. China's paintings were abbreviated as "Chinese paintings".

Mainly refers to scroll paintings painted on silk, rice paper and silk and mounted. Chinese painting is a traditional form of painting in China, which uses brush strokes dipped in water, ink and color on silk or paper.

Tools and materials include brushes, ink, Chinese painting pigments, rice paper, silk and so on. Themes can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. And techniques can be divided into figurative and freehand brushwork.

Chinese painting embodies the ancients' cognition of nature, society and its related politics, philosophy, religion, morality, literature and art in content and artistic creation.

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The main categories of Chinese painting:

1, landscape painting

Landscape painting, referred to as "landscape". A Chinese painting. Painting with natural scenery as the main body. The Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties gradually developed, but it was still attached to figure painting, which was mostly used as a background.

2. Figure painting

A painting. The general term for paintings with figures as the main body. China's figure painting, referred to as "figure" for short, is a major branch of Chinese painting, which appeared before landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting. Generally, it can be divided into Taoist painting, lady painting, portrait painting, genre painting and historical story painting.

3. Flower and bird painting

Flower and bird painting is a kind of Chinese painting, which depicts flowers, birds and insects. In Chinese painting, all paintings that describe flowers, flowers and birds, fish and insects are called flower-and-bird paintings. There are three painting methods of flower-and-bird painting: meticulous painting, freehand brushwork and concurrent painting.