Who is the originator of Buddha painting in China

Cao Buxing was a native of Wu Xing. Also known as Fuxing, he was good at painting. Legend has it that when he was painting a screen for Sun Quan, he mistakenly dropped his brush and ink, so he painted a fly with his hand. Sun Quan thought it was a fly flying onto the painting, so he raised his hand and flicked it. It can be imagined that Cao Buxing's skill in the art of sketching had reached an extremely pure level. In the winter and October of the first year of Sun Quan's Ch'iwu reign (228), Sun Quan traveled to Chingxi and saw a red dragon descending from the sky and traveling over the waves. Therefore, he asked Cao Buxing to draw its shape. Because of the success of the painting and Sun Quan's appreciation, to the time of Emperor Wen of Song Dynasty, but also commonly used this red dragon to ask for rain. At that time, the minister Xie He saw the dragon head painted by Cao Buxing in the secret cabinet, and thought that it was a real dragon coming down. This shows the beauty of his paintings. Cao Buxing was best at figure painting, he once put 50 feet of silk together to draw a portrait of a person, the mind and hand quickly, and then made. The figure's head, face, hands, feet, chest, abdomen, shoulders and back, without a single mistake. Cao Buxing is the earliest known painter of Buddhist statues in the literature. Buddhism was introduced to China during the Eastern Han Dynasty, but mainly in the Central Plains. During the Three Kingdoms period, Buddhism was introduced to the south of the Yangtze River by the monks Zhiqian and Kang Shenghui. According to the legend, Kang Sheng Hui traveled to Wu, and Sun Quan built the Jianchu Temple for him and ordered him to set up statues to walk on the road. When Cao Buxing saw the western Buddha statue, he painted it accordingly, and thus the statue of Buddha was widely spread all over the world. This is the earliest work of Buddhist painting in China, and Cao Buxing also became the earliest painter of Buddhist statues in China. During the Three Kingdoms period, painting did not achieve much because of the political turmoil and social chaos. The content of paintings at this time was also a period of transition from ritualistic propaganda to religious propaganda. Painters also moved from the central plains of the Yellow River basin to the Yangtze River basin. After Cao Buxing, there were more and more painters in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.