Chinese painting subjects can be divided into

Chinese painting subjects can be divided into flower and bird painting, landscape painting, figure painting.

I. Flower and Bird Painting.

It is a kind of Chinese painting that depicts flowers, birds and insects. In Chinese painting, any painting that depicts flowers, birds, fish and insects as objects is called flower and bird painting. There are three kinds of painting methods in flower and bird painting, namely, "work brush", "writing" and "both work and writing". Work brush flower and bird painting is to use thick and light ink to outline the object, and then shades of coloring in different levels.

Flower and bird painting is a traditional Chinese painting that mainly depicts plants and animals. It can be subdivided into the subfamilies of flowers, plumes, fruits and vegetables, grasses and insects, animals and scales. Chinese bird and flower painting focuses on the aesthetic relationship between Chinese people and natural creatures as aesthetic objects, and has a strong lyricism. It often reflects the spirit of the times and social life indirectly by expressing the author's thoughts and feelings.

Two, landscape painting.

Also known as landscape, is the natural landscape of mountains and rivers as the main depiction of the object of Chinese painting, formed in the Wei, Jin and North and South Dynasties period, the Sui and Tang dynasties began to be independent, the Five Dynasties, the Northern Song Dynasty tends to mature, and has become an important section of Chinese painting. Chinese landscape painting is about 1,000 years earlier than Western landscape painting. Chinese landscape painting is traditionally categorized according to the style of painting into green landscape, gold and blue landscape, ink landscape, and so on.

Chinese landscape painting is actually a history of Chinese thought, compared with Western landscape painting. As early as 7,000 years ago, the awakening of the ancestors was recorded in the form of patterns. The Neolithic Hemudu culture already expressed the connotation of conceptual culture with line carvings, and the origin of sedentary farming civilization not only allowed people to recognize the beauty of tools, but also the beauty of form on top of tools.

Third, figure painting.

Figure painting is a general term for paintings in which the figure is the main subject. Chinese figure painting, referred to as "figure", is a major painting in Chinese painting, the emergence of landscape painting, bird and flower painting, etc. for the early; roughly divided into Taoism and Buddhism painting, painting of ladies, portrait painting, custom painting, historical story painting, and so on. Figure painting strives to portray the personality of the characters in a realistic and vivid manner, with a good balance of form and spirit.

Chinese figure painters advocate: to write God in form, form and God. Hold on to the eyes, gestures, posture and important details conducive to God, emphasizing the separate primary and secondary, detailed, detailed in the facial gestures to convey the feelings of a little in the clothing, detailed in the activities of the characters and their look echoed a little in the description of the environment.