Signature of the college official. In charge of painting in the ancient court of China. In addition to drawing various pictures for the royal family, it also undertakes the identification and collation of royal Tibetan paintings and the training of painting students. Later, it also refers to the creation and research institutions of modern art in China. The Palace Painting Academy began in the Five Dynasties and flourished in the Song Dynasty. Hanlin Painting Academy is the earliest painting academy in the history of China, which was founded by Meng Changjun, the owner of Houshu. In Song Dynasty, there were many talented painters in Hui Zong, which established a complete system for the Academy of Painting, and required the artists of the Academy to create according to their own appreciation interests and creative methods. Xuanhe Academy became a model of later academies and played a great role in the prosperity of painting in Song Dynasty. Zhiyuan, the tradition of the painting academy was interrupted. Clear reset, clear waste. Since 1950s, Beijing Painting Academy has been established, and then Beijing Rongbao Painting Academy and other painting academies have been established one after another. Various provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions have set up painting academies, but their paintings have gone beyond the scope of Chinese painting, including oil painting, printmaking and sculpture.

Huizong Xuanhe Painting Academy in Northern Song Dynasty