What are the characteristics of ancient figure painting in China? 1, content 2, expression 3, background 4, what else?

Taking lines as the main modeling means and "vivid" as the most fundamental requirement for shaping artistic images, so as to achieve the artistic conception of "surpassing images and winning aesthetic feeling".

During the Warring States period, line drawing only showed the outline of objects. The Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties was an important period for the development of figure painting, with the emergence of the first batch of figure painting masters represented by Gu Kaizhi and the first batch of figure painting theories represented by Wei Jinsheng's Painting Praise and On Painting, which laid an important tradition of figure painting in China. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Wu Daozi pushed the figure painting of religious painting to a new situation that was more expressive, vivid and touching. The Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty witnessed the in-depth development of figure painting in China, and social genre painting flourished in the Song Dynasty. The works have made rapid progress in reflecting the sociality of facts, expressing the inherent complexity of characters and the magnificent composition ability. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival was produced in this period. During the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, some innovative painters appeared, such as Chen Hongshou and Ren Bonian.

The description of characters in China's ancient figure paintings is not only satisfied with the similarity of appearance, but more importantly, it reveals the characters' personality and inner world, that is, the so-called vivid, both in form and spirit. The painting Han Xizai's Night Banquet is very well grasped.