Chinese painting, use writing brush, Chinese ink and the pigment, created painting according to the form of Chinese expression and artistic rule. Chinese painting is the important component of the Chinese culture. Chinese painting break space-time limit, have high-level generalization strength and imagination, such skill and means, make China’s traditional painting have artistic charm.
Chinese painting history is long, the painting on the silk fabrics appeared as far back as the Warring States Period more than 2000 years ago — Silk Painting. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties period, China’s painting takes religious painting as the core, landscape painting, flower-and-bird painting also sprout at this moment. In Sui and Tang dynasties, social economy and culture are highly prosperous, Chinese painting present the prosperous situation too. Landscape painting, flower-and-bird painting has developed maturely, religion painting has reached the summit; the portrait painting main display the noble living, has presented the model of the characteristics of era. Sung Dynasty was further ripe and more prosperous, portrait painting, landscape painting, flower-and-bird painting leapt to the painting mainstream. Chinese ink mountains and rivers painting, comfortable birds and flowers painting got outstanding development in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. At the end of the 19th century, Chinese painting introduced from the western artistic idea, the simultaneous inherit nationality’s traditional painting with innovation.
Chinese painting, have reflected the Social consciousness and aesthetics temperament and interest of Chinese nation, having reflected the understanding that Chinese to nature, the society, politics, philosophy, religion, morals, literature and art, etc..
