What are the traditional Chinese painting types

Traditional Chinese paintings are: landscape painting, figure painting, flower and bird painting.

1, bird and flower painting: bird and flower painting to flowers, birds, insects and other paintings, bird and flower paintings are divided into ink outlining the object of the main brush painting, more abstract to generalize the performance of the painting in writing, in the middle of the two outlining and abstract both the performance of bird and flower paintings for the three kinds of work with writing, which is also work with the writing of the paintings are the most sublime.

2, landscape painting: landscape painting to depict the scenery of the mountains and rivers as the main paintings, the Wei and Jin dynasties for the figure as a complementary painting, from the Sui and Tang dynasties, landscape painting gradually become a kind of painting. Landscape painting painting techniques are more mainly thick ink method, broken ink method, dipping ink method, ink method, ink accumulation method, splash ink method, etc. to express the beauty of the landscape between the mood. Landscape painting is also divided into green landscapes and pictorial landscapes, pictorial landscapes are mostly ink-based, green landscapes focus on the details of the painting.

3, figure painting: figure painting, mainly to a variety of characters based on the painting, figure painting is also divided into custom paintings, historical stories, paintings, portraits and so on. Most of the figure paintings require the characters to be both in form and in spirit, and the performance of the characters' character is rendered by the environment, stature, posture, etc., in order to pursue the characters' both in form and in spirit.

China's top five traditional paintings

1, the Eastern Jin Dynasty? Gu Kaizhi "Luoshen Fu": This painting is based on Cao Zhi's famous "Luoshen Fu", which is Gu Kaizhi's heirloom masterpiece. The whole volume is divided into three parts, twisted and detailed but layered depiction of Cao Zhi and Luo Shen sincere and pure love story. The arrangement of characters is appropriate, and the brushwork is fine and simple, just like "spring silkworms spitting silk". The painting method of the mountains, rivers, trees and rocks is childish and simple, the so-called "people in the mountains, water is not allowed to pan", reflecting the characteristics of early landscape painting.

2, Five Dynasties? Gu ma-tek "Han Xizai Night Banquet": "Han Xizai Night Banquet" is a great painter Gu ma-tek in the Five Dynasties, is now hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing. It depicts the scene of Han Xizai's family having a banquet and having fun in a long chain of scrolls. The most important feature of the painting is that it depicts the flow of time with a static scroll. The brushwork is fine and round, the colors are rich, and the figures are handsome, graceful and lifelike. It is the most outstanding masterpiece of figure painting in the Five Dynasties period.

3, Tang? Yan Liben "Step in the emperor's carriage": "Step in the emperor's carriage" is now hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing, for the famous painter Yan Liben painted in the Tang Dynasty. Taking the historical event of the marriage between Songtsen Gampo, the leader of the Tubo, and Princess Wencheng as the theme, the painting depicts the Tang Emperor Taizong receiving the Tubo envoy Ludongzan, who came to marry Princess Wencheng. There are a large number of figures in the painting, but their gestures are vivid and not identical. The brushwork is light and fluid, and the depiction of not only the figures but also the artifacts is unique.

4. Northern Song Dynasty. Zhang Zeduan "Qingming Shanghe Tu": "Qingming Shanghe Tu" is the Northern Song Dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan survived only one of the best, is now hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing, the Northern Song Dynasty custom painting works. Heirloom masterpiece, first-class national treasure. Qingming Riverside is one of the most famous works in the history of Chinese painting, with a high level of art, and the painting depicts the prosperity of Bianjing during the Qingming Festival, which is a testimony to the prosperity of Bianjing in that year, and a reflection of the economic situation of the city in the Northern Song Dynasty.

5, Yuan? Huang Gongwang "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains": "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" was first painted in the seventh year of the reign of Emperor Zhizheng, and was completed in the tenth year of the reign of Emperor Zhizheng. The painting in the qing dynasty during the shunzhi was fire, broken into two sections, the first half of the volume was mounted separately, renamed "leftover mountain map", is now housed in zhejiang museum. It is now in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum. It is regarded as the "treasure of the town" in the Zhejiang Museum. It is the masterpiece of Huang Gongwang, the patriarch of Yuan Dynasty painting and the first of the "Four Yuan Schools" in his later years, and it is also the pinnacle of ancient Chinese ink landscape painting.