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Chinese painting is divided into several categories

Chinese painting is usually divided into three categories: landscape, birds and flowers, and figures.

There are many categories of Chinese painting if they are further divided. Chinese paintings have been categorized at different times in history, but it is difficult to express them. The following are some of the more popular ones:

One, in the Song Dynasty, "Xuanhe Paintings", is divided into Taoism and Buddhism, figures, palaces, fannies, dragons and fishes, landscapes, beasts and animals, birds and flowers, and vegetables.

Second, the Southern Song Dynasty Deng Chun "painting" is divided into fairy, Buddha, ghosts and gods, character biography, landscape, bamboo and stone, flowers and bamboo plumes, animals, animals, insects and fish, house wood, boats and vehicles, fruits and vegetables, medicinal herbs, and miscellaneous paintings of small scenes.

Three, Ming Tao Zongyi "Dropout Record" is divided into Buddha and Bodhisattva statues, the Jade Emperor monarchs and kings of the Tao statues, vajra ghosts and deities Lohan monks, wind and clouds, dragons and tigers, predestined mission, the whole territory of the mountains and forests, flowers, bamboo plumes, wild asses and animals, the earth's movement, the boundary of the paintings of the buildings and platforms, all the side of the life of the farming and weaving, sculpture green embedded in the green. If further divided, there are many categories of Chinese paintings. At different times in history, Chinese painting has been categorized, but it is difficult to express.