Chinese painting was generally called in ancient times?

The main types of traditional paintings in China. From the perspective of art history, Chinese paintings before the Republic of China were collectively called ancient paintings. In ancient times, Chinese painting did not have a clear name, and it was generally called Danqing, which mainly refers to scroll painting painted on silk, rice paper and silk and mounted. Known as Chinese painting in modern times, it is different from foreign paintings such as oil paintings (also known as western paintings) imported from the west. It is a painting created by China's unique pen and ink and pigments according to the long-term expression and artistic law. Chinese painting can be subdivided into ink painting, heavy color, light crimson, meticulous painting, freehand brushwork and line drawing according to its materials and expression methods. According to their themes, there are figure paintings, landscape paintings and flower-and-bird paintings. There are various forms of Chinese painting, including long scrolls (also known as hand scrolls) and horizontal strokes, banners and nave, album pages and bucket squares, folding fans and round fans painted on fans. Chinese painting reflects the social consciousness and aesthetic taste of the Chinese nation in ideological content and artistic creation, and embodies China people's understanding of nature, society and politics, philosophy, religion, morality, literature and art related to it.