What's the difference between traditional painting in China and traditional painting in Europe?

China's early paintings are divided into several painting themes according to the themes of his works, such as figure painting, landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting. Chinese painting can be divided into two types according to techniques and styles, namely meticulous painting and freehand brushwork. Meticulous painting is also called "fine painting". His painting style is neat and meticulous, with regular and expressive lines outlining the outline of objects, and paying attention to the description of details, and then applying heavy and bright colors. Most of the pigments used in meticulous painting are minerals, which can still maintain their original colors after many years; The whole picture is beautiful and bright, with strong decorative effect.

In Chinese painting, people, things, landscapes and flowers and birds are the three biggest themes, and they are also the most common themes. They can roughly correspond to figures, landscapes and still lives in European paintings.

The history of European painting combines the cultural concepts, religious consciousness, philosophical thoughts and aesthetic tastes of European countries. It is not only a painting history, but also a vivid ideological and cultural history.