Chinese paintings include landscapes, flowers and birds, fish and insects. Why is it called landscape painting instead of flower, bird, fish and insect painting?

Chinese paintings are mainly classified by subject matter: landscape painting, figure painting and flower-and-bird painting. For the genre of flowers, birds, fish and insects, it can also be called flower-and-bird painting.

Flower and bird painting is a kind of Chinese painting, which depicts flowers, birds and insects. In Chinese painting, all paintings that describe flowers, flowers and birds, fish and insects are called flower-and-bird paintings. There are three painting methods of flower-and-bird painting: meticulous painting, freehand brushwork and concurrent painting.