What does Chinese painting mean?

Chinese painting, also known as "Chinese painting", is a traditional painting in China (different from "Western painting"). Tools and materials include brush, ink, Chinese painting pigments, rice paper, silk and so on. Themes can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. Techniques can be divided into brushwork and freehand brushwork, and its spiritual core is "pen and ink".

Chinese painting, also known as "Chinese painting", is a kind of Chinese painting (different from "western painting"). Scroll painting mainly refers to painting on silk, rice paper and silk with brush, ink and traditional Chinese painting pigments and mounting them. Themes can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. Techniques are divided into brushwork and freehand brushwork, and its spiritual core is "pen and ink". Traditional Chinese painting emphasizes "the nature of foreign teachers, the heart is in the source of China", requires "the meaning should be kept first, and the painting should be satisfied", and emphasizes the integration of things and the creation of artistic conception, so as to achieve the purpose of describing the spirit with form, having both form and spirit and vivid charm. It emphasizes spirit rather than modeling, and artistic conception rather than scene.

Chinese painting has a long history. As early as 2000 years ago, silk paintings appeared in the Warring States period, before which there were primitive rock paintings and painted pottery paintings.

Since the end of 19, western artistic expressions and artistic ideas have been introduced into Chinese painting for a hundred years, and many schools, famous artists and constant reforms and innovations have emerged in the cultural environment that inherits the traditional Chinese painting.