Brief introduction of Chinese painting of flowers and birds?

Briefly describe the flower-and-bird painting in Chinese painting as follows:

A painting with traditional tools such as China's brush and ink, rice paper, etc., and animal and plant images such as "flowers, birds, insects, fish and beasts" as the description object. China flower-and-bird painting is one of the three branches of traditional painting in China. The object of flower-and-bird painting is not only flowers and birds, but also various animals and plants, including flowers, fruits and vegetables, feathers, insects and animals.

Classification: Flower-and-bird painting is a traditional painting discipline in China with animals and plants as the main objects. It can also be subdivided into subfamilies such as flowers, feathers, fruits and vegetables, grasshoppers, animals and scales. China's flower-and-bird paintings reflect the aesthetic relationship between China people and natural creatures as aesthetic objects, and have strong lyricism. It often reflects the spirit of the times by expressing the author's thoughts and feelings.

Indirectly reflecting social life, it shows very distinct characteristics in the paintings of similar themes of all nationalities in the world. Its technology is diverse. It used to be divided into meticulous flower-and-bird painting and freehand flower-and-bird painting (also divided into big freehand flower-and-bird painting and small freehand flower-and-bird painting) with delicate or unrestrained description techniques.

According to the different colors of ink, it can be divided into ink flower-and-bird painting, splash-ink flower-and-bird painting, colored flower-and-bird painting, sketch flower-and-bird painting and boneless flower-and-bird painting. Flower and bird painting is a kind of Chinese painting.

Xuan He Hua Pu in the Northern Song Dynasty. "On Flowers and Birds" said: "Poets have six meanings, and they know the names of birds, animals and herbs better, and they also remember the ups and downs of the four seasons, so the beauty of painting is more interesting here, which is different from poets." 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 part-time work. Fine brushwork flower-and-bird painting is to outline the moving image with thick and light ink, and then color it layer by layer; Freehand flower-and-bird painting is to draw objects in a concise and general way; Between meticulous painting and freehand brushwork, it is called part-time job.