In its long history of development, Chinese painting has formed its own style and pursuit. Most importantly, paintings are not true pictures of what you see with your eyes, but graphic expressions of people’s feelings, wisdom and morality.

The Power of the Lines

Chinese painting is known for its “beauty of the line”. Painters are good at using the changes of the lines to express the posture of the objects. For example, in the Tang Dynasty painter Wu Daozi’s “Heavenly King Sending Sons”, the cloth belt fluttering indicates a feeling of wind blowing.

There are three major themes of Chinese painting: landscapes, flowers and birds, and human figures. In the eyes of the painter, everything in the world, no matter how big or small, has its own life. Landscape paintings, flowers-and- birds paintings reflect people’s love for nature, and the idea that people and nature live in harmony.

  Chinese culture is one of the oldest in the world, and it continues through today.