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Zhang Hua niao Hua

Zhang's flower-and-bird paintings: Nine-year-old Chaoyang, Magnolia Ribbon, Pond Rain and Dew, Snow Crane, Banana, etc.

Flower-and-bird painting is a kind of Chinese painting that depicts plants and animals, such as flowers, birds and insects. In Chinese painting, all paintings that describe flowers, flowers and birds, fish and insects are called flower-and-bird paintings.

Flower-and-bird painting refers to a kind of painting with traditional tools such as China's pen and ink, rice paper and so on, and with 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 birds.

Flower-and-bird painting is a traditional painting discipline in China, which focuses on animals and plants. 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 expresses the author's thoughts and feelings, embodies the spirit of the times, indirectly reflects social life, and shows very distinctive characteristics in the paintings of similar themes of all nationalities in the world. Its techniques are diverse, and it was divided into meticulous flower-and-bird painting and freehand flower-and-bird painting with delicate or unrestrained description techniques.

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The completion of China's flower-and-bird painting marks the establishment of a special form of expression in the world's art treasure house, and has had a great influence on neighboring countries. Japan has been a subsidiary of Chinese painting for a long time, and Japanese flower-and-bird painters have been hired to teach techniques in China. 14 and 15 centuries, this form of expression spread to India, Persia and other countries, deeply infecting their painting art. ..

Flower-and-bird painting has a long history and far-reaching social influence in the history of painting in China, and shows distinctive artistic characteristics with its unique charm. As a part of traditional painting in China, flower-and-bird painting is deeply loved by people in terms of artistic expression and artistic conception. Flower and bird painting can be traced back to the Stone Age of prehistoric civilization.