What is the history of the development of Chinese art?

I. The gestation period of traditional Chinese culture

1. Time

The primitive social period, counting from the earliest primitive culture, Chinese culture has a history of 2 million years.

About 7,000 years ago, mankind entered the Neolithic Age. Agriculture, pottery making, and the grinding and drilling of stone tools were the three major civilizational achievements of the Neolithic.

2. Primitive Art and Primitive Religion

Primitive art mainly includes: dances imitating labor movements, as well as pottery sculptures, pottery paintings and wood and bone carvings.

Primitive religion: nature worship, ancestor worship and totem worship.

Second, the embryonic period of Chinese traditional culture

Summer, Shang and Zhou period, specifically 2070 BC to 221 BC (*** about 1800 years). According to the research results of the "Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasty Dating Project", the beginning of the Xia Dynasty was about 2070 BC, the Xia-Shang divide was about 1600 BC, and the Shang-Zhou divide was about 1046 BC.

Three, the stereotyped period of traditional Chinese culture

General characteristics: institutionalization, modeling, and programming.

This can be further divided into three phases:

(I) Period of development (Qin and Han - Wei, Jin, and North and South Dynasties)

(II) Period of maturity (Sui and Tang - Southern Song Dynasty)

(III) Period of decline (Yuan and Ming, Qing Dynasty before 1840)

Fourth, the Transformation Period of Chinese Traditional Culture

From the outbreak of the Opium War in 1840 until the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC) in 1912, it was a period of transformation of Chinese traditional culture. This period of cultural development is generally characterized by a mixture of old and new, foreign Western modern culture and traditional Chinese culture both conflict and integration, the two cultures to compete, "the dead to drag the living, the new to break through the old," but the transformation of traditional culture to modern culture is an unstoppable trend.