The characteristics of China's ancient flower-and-bird paintings: expressing emotion by holding objects.

The characteristics of ancient flower-and-bird paintings in China are: expressing things with words and expressing feelings with things.

The Extension of the Basic Introduction of China Ancient Flower-and-Bird Painting;

Flower-and-bird painting, one of the three traditional painting families in China, not only depicts flowers and birds, but also refers to flowers, fruits and vegetables, insects, feathers, animals and other animals and plants. Fine brushwork flower-and-bird painting is to outline the object with thick and light ink, and then color it layer by layer; Freehand flower-and-bird painting is to draw objects in a concise and general way; Between meticulous painting and freehand brushwork, it is called meticulous painting, and its form is realism.

As early as in the primitive society where there was no clear division of labor between craft, sculpture and painting, China's flower-and-bird painting sprouted. Tied Tiger, a woodcut unearthed in Fangmatan, Tianshui, is the earliest known single flower-and-bird painting. Flower-and-bird painting developed to a considerable scale during the Han and Six Dynasties. Liu Yinzu, a painter of the Eastern Jin Dynasty recorded in the Southern Qi Xie He Tu, is the earliest known flower-and-bird painter.

In the Six Dynasties, many independent flower-and-bird paintings appeared, such as Gu Kaizhi's Bird Map, Shi Daoshuo's Goose Map, Gu's Hummingbird Map and Deer Map.

The expansion of the basic characteristics of ancient flower-and-bird paintings in China:

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.