Mustard Seed Garden is a far-reaching art teaching material, which has played an enlightening role in Chinese painting education. This book covers various Chinese painting techniques, such as landscapes, flowers and birds, figures and so on. And provide rich graphic information for painting learners, so that they can master the basic techniques through copying exercises.

It also inspired many famous Chinese painting masters, such as Qi Baishi, Pan Tianshou, Fu Baoshi, Huang and Li Keran, who benefited from it and made outstanding achievements in the field of painting. For beginners, Mustard Seed Garden is an important introductory textbook for learning Chinese painting. By copying the works of the ancients, beginners can gradually integrate the strengths of a hundred schools of thought and form their own style.

Although copying is an important way to learn traditional painting skills, too much pursuit of modeling and perspective may lead to ignoring the painting skills and aesthetic taste of traditional ink painting. In the process of learning, we need to maintain respect for tradition and be brave in innovation. "Mustard Seed Garden" is a classic of great significance to China's painting education, and we can get inspiration from it for both friends who study painting and those who love painting.

The author of mustard seed garden

The author of Mustard Seed Garden is Li Yu, a famous writer in Qing Dynasty. Li Yu (1622-1680) is a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu. He is a famous opera theorist, novelist and painter in the history of China, and is known as "the first talented person in the south of the Yangtze River".

Li Yu has made great achievements in literature, drama and painting. Representative works include "Let it be" and "Biography of Mustard Garden".

Biography of Mustard Seed Garden is a textbook of Chinese painting techniques jointly written by him and his son-in-law Shen and Wang (Wang Jue,,). This painting spectrum includes the essence of various Chinese painting techniques such as tree spectrum, rock spectrum, genealogy, plum blossom, bamboo and chrysanthemum spectrum, flower and insect feather spectrum, as well as Chinese painting techniques, famous painting theories and classic paintings, which provides rich learning resources for friends who study painting.

Mustard Seed Orchard has received extensive attention and praise since its publication. It not only had a far-reaching impact on painting education at that time, but also had great inspiration for later painting masters. Nowadays, Mustard Seed Garden has become a classic in the textbook of Chinese painting techniques, which is of great significance for learning and inheriting Chinese traditional painting art.