What are the traditional paintings in China?

Traditional painting in China includes flower-and-bird painting, folk painting, landscape painting, fan painting and figure painting.

1, flower-and-bird painting:

Flower-and-bird painting is mainly composed of flowers, birds and insects. Flower-and-bird painting can be divided into three types: meticulous flower-and-bird painting with ink as the main object, freehand flower-and-bird painting with abstract techniques, and flower-and-bird painting with both sketch and abstraction in between. Among them, part-time and writing paintings are the most vivid.

2. Folk painting:

In Chinese painting, it refers to all kinds of paintings made by street artists who cater to the secular world except professional painters and literati painters. His works tend to be gorgeous, sweet and delicate. Different from professional painters and literati painters, his paintings pay more attention to poetic and picturesque cultural connotations. It is loved by ordinary people at the general cultural level.

3. Landscape painting:

Landscape painting mainly depicts mountains and rivers, supplemented by figure painting in Wei and Jin Dynasties, and has gradually become a kind of painting since Sui and Tang Dynasties. There are many painting methods of landscape painting, such as thick ink method, broken ink method, dipped ink method, accumulated ink method and splash ink method, to express the beauty of artistic conception between mountains and rivers.

Landscape painting is also divided into green landscape and freehand landscape, and freehand landscape is mainly ink and wash. Landscape painting pays attention to the overall freehand brushwork effect, while the green mountains and green waters pay attention to the detailed description, and the colors of mineral plants are used for coloring, among which Wang Ximeng's "A Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers" is the best.

4. Fan painting:

In the category of Chinese painting, painters and calligraphers of all ages like to paint or write on the fan to express their feelings, or collect poems for others or give them to friends as souvenirs. The fan for storing calligraphy and painting is called a fan, which is framed into a book for easy collection. From the shape, there are round fans and folding fans.

5, figure painting:

Portrait paintings with various figures are mainly divided into genre paintings, historical story paintings, ladies' paintings and portraits. Most figure paintings require both form and spirit of characters, and the performance of characters is rendered through environment, characters and posture, and the pursuit of both form and spirit of characters is pursued.