How to appreciate the essence of traditional Chinese culture in the study of writing flowers and birds

Expression of meaning, rendering of mood, and grasp of interest. The spirit of culture embedded in pictorial birds and flowers is the essence of traditional Chinese painting, which attaches importance to the expression of meaning, the rendering of mood, and the grasping of interest, as painters abandon their concern for the external color of nature and turn to its own inner nature. Writing, the term of art creation, as opposed to "realism", the artist ignores the external realism of the artistic image, and emphasizes the inner spirit of the essence of the performance of artistic creation tendencies and techniques, initially originated in the painting, the rise of the Northern Song Dynasty.