What kind of difference between Chinese painting and watercolor painting

Chinese painting's traditional substrate is rice paper (divided into raw Xuan, cooked Xuan) or silk, silk; watercolor painting's traditional substrate is more watercolor paper, thicker, and the surface of the surface of the various textures, watercolor can also be painted on smooth cardboard.

2, style and modeling language is different:

The traditional modeling language of Chinese painting is outlining dots and dyes, the line is an independent element of the composition of the painting, modeling is not light and shadow as a means of expression of the volume of the color is not very complex, but usually rich in symbolic meaning. Watercolor painting is a category in the Western painting system, is to follow the light and shadow modeling, and color also focus on realism, early watercolor paintings to express the intrinsic color and light and dark tones, modern watercolor paintings to express the light and color and environmental color, color atmosphere, and the national painting is still fundamentally different.