The color painting is used with strict hierarchical provisions, level from high to low is divided into ( ) three kinds.

Color painting is used with strict hierarchical regulations, the level from high to low is divided into () three kinds of color painting, spinning color painting, Su-style color painting.

1, and seal painting

Also known as the palace building paintings, this traditional palace building paintings in the Qing dynasty is one of the highest level of paintings, mostly painted on the palace building or with the royal family on top of the building.

In ancient Chinese architecture, in addition to the architectural structure to let people stop in addition to its internal and external eaves painted on the colorful, solemn and elegant composition of the colorful paintings is also an important part of attracting people's attention. Because of the colorful paintings, those who have weathered the ancient architecture can still be used to describe the splendor, so that the ancient architecture has a kind of grandeur and the momentum of the Huran.

2, spin color painting

spin color painting, also known as the school, centipede circle, is a kind of ancient Chinese architecture on the ancient building color painting style, in the rank of second only to the and seal color painting, can be widely seen in the palace, the residence of the Secretary. Spinning color painting is named because of the spinning flower pattern painted on the head of the algae.

Spinning color paintings are mainly painted on the beams and square beams of buildings. The color tones are mainly yellow (Xionghuangyu) and lime green (Shimianyu); the lines are outlined with gold and ink lines; and the heart of the whirligig flowers is filled with gold. According to the amount of gold used, it can be divided into six grades: gold faceted and inked stone-milled jade (gold-line androgynous jade), smoke faceted and inked stone-milled jade (ink-line androgynous jade), gold line with large dots of gold, ink line with large dots of gold, ink line with small dots of gold, and yawu ink; the grade of the one with more gold paste is high, and the grade of the one with less gold paste is low.

3, Su-style painting

Su-style painting

Suzhou and Hangzhou region from the south of the folk tradition, so the name, commonly known as the "Suzhou piece". Ming Yongle years camping Beijing palace, a large number of requisitioned Jiangnan craftsmen, Su-style color Li because of the introduction of the north, and become and seal color painting, spinning color painting style is different from a form of color painting, it is often used in the garden architecture, give a person lively, elegant, fun and unlimited reverie.

After hundreds of years of change, the pattern, layout, subject matter, and color have been different from the original Jiangnan color painting, especially in the Qianlong period of the Suzhou-style color painting colorful, decorative and expensive, also known as the "official-style Suzhou painting".