China is mainly based on ink painting, which is called Chinese painting, mainly including figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, boundary paintings and so on.

Figure painting is a painting with characters as the main body, mainly including Taoist painting, lady painting, portrait, genre painting, historical story painting and so on. During the Warring States Period, mature figure painting appeared in China and reached a high artistic level.

Landscape painting is a painting that mainly depicts the natural scenery of mountains and rivers. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, China's landscape painting has become an independent creation. By the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, landscape painting was becoming more and more mature. China landscape painting can be divided into ink painting, turquoise, resplendent, light crimson, light color and other forms according to techniques and colors.

Flower-and-bird painting mainly depicts flowers, fruits, bamboo stones, birds and animals, insects and fish. Flower and bird painting started very early. There are many patterns and decorations of flowers, insects, fish and dragons on painted pottery in Neolithic Age and bronze wares in Yin and Zhou Dynasties. Traditional flower-and-bird painting can be divided into flowers, fruits, feathers (birds), animals, insects and fish.

Boundary painting refers to paintings with palaces, houses, pavilions and other buildings as the theme, and the boundaries are straight. Also known as "palace painting", "Taige painting" or "house wood painting". Jiehua, founded in the Sui Dynasty, is the earliest boundary between figures and mountains.

In addition, there are Buddhist paintings and prints.

Generally speaking, Buddhist paintings can be divided into two categories: non-drama and drama. Non-drama category refers to portrait category, which can be divided into seven categories: Buddha, Bodhisattva, Lohan, Ming King, Monk, Tianlong Babu or Tianzun and Datura.

Story Buddhist paintings are mostly based on Buddhist stories composed of Buddhist scriptures, which can be divided into six categories: Buddhist stories, Buddhist stories, changing stories, supporting human beings, land and water paintings and Thangka paintings. In addition, there are mountains and temples, legends of literati and monks, which are equivalent to comics and the like.

Printmaking is an important category of China fine arts. Ancient prints mainly refer to woodcuts, but a few copperplate prints and overprinting are not allowed. The unique taste of knife wood makes it have independent artistic value and position in the history of China culture and art.

The origin of China prints can be divided into Han Dynasty, Eastern Jin Dynasty, Six Dynasties and even Sui Dynasty. The earliest existing print in China, dated, is the "Xian Tong" version of the world-famous "King Kong Prajna Paramita Sutra", which was written in 868 AD according to the inscription. The "Zhide" seal unearthed from the Tang Tomb in Chengdu, Sichuan Province is estimated to be about 100 years earlier than the "Xian Tong" seal. Prints of Tang and Five Dynasties were found in northwest China and wuyue. Most of the works are concise and handsome, and the knife method is magical. The content and theme are mainly religious texts.

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Divided into color painting and colorless painting.

Color painting: gouache, oil painting, etc.

Colorless painting: sketch, sketch, etc.

Printed matter, illustrations,