The category of Chinese painting

Chinese paintings are usually divided into three categories: landscapes, flowers, and people. If there is a further division, there are many categories of Chinese painting. In different periods of history, Chinese paintings were classified, but they are difficult to express. The following are some of the more popular categories:

First, the song "Xuanhe Painting" is divided into Taoist interpretations, characters, palaces, the Tus, Arowana, landscapes, beasts, flowers, birds and vegetables.

Second, the Southern Song Dynasty Deng Shuo "Painting" is divided into fairy ghosts, characters to write, landscape bamboo, flowers and bamboo hairs, animal beasts, fish, houseboats, fruits and vegetables herbs, small scenes.

Third, Ming Tao Zongyi's “Plendering Records” is divided into Buddha and Bodhisattvas, Jade Emperors and Kings, Vajrapani, Luohan, Holy Dragon, Dragons and Tigers, Cosmopolitan missions, all over the mountains, flowers and bamboos, wild ass and animals, and human activities. Draw a picture of the pavilion, all the next to it, cultivating the weaving, and carving green.