Chinese painting, also known as "Chinese painting", is a traditional painting in China (different from "Western painting"). Draw on special rice paper or silk with brush, ink and traditional Chinese painting pigments. The main themes are people, landscapes, flowers and birds. Techniques can be divided into two types: brushwork and freehand brushwork, which are full of traditional characteristics. From the perspective of art history, all Chinese paintings before the Republic of China are collectively called ancient paintings. In ancient times, Chinese painting did not have a clear name, and it was generally called Danqing, which mainly refers to scroll painting painted on silk, rice paper and silk and mounted. Known as Chinese painting in modern times, it is different from foreign paintings such as oil paintings (also known as western paintings) imported from the west. It is a painting created by China's unique pen and ink and pigments according to the long-term expression and artistic law. Chinese painting reflects the social consciousness and aesthetic taste of the Chinese nation in terms of ideological content and artistic creation, and embodies China people's understanding of nature, society and politics, philosophy, religion, morality, literature and art related to it. Traditional Chinese painting emphasizes "the nature of foreign teachers is the source of China's heart", requires "meaning to save the pen first, and draw as best as possible", and emphasizes the integration of things and the creation of artistic conception, so as to achieve the purpose of describing the spirit with form, having both form and spirit and vivid charm. Because calligraphy and painting are of the same origin, they are closely related to the operation of bone and line, so the seal cutting of calligraphy and painting affects each other and forms a remarkable artistic feature. The tool materials for painting are pens, ink, paper, inkstone and silk specially made in China. Modern Chinese painting has made a breakthrough and development in inheriting tradition and absorbing foreign techniques. Western painting refers to the western painting which is different from the traditional painting system in China. Including oil painting, watercolor painting, gouache painting, printmaking, pencil drawing, pencil drawing and other paintings. Western traditional painting pays attention to realism, expresses the volume, texture and sense of space of objects by perspective and light and shade, and requires the color effect of objects under a certain light source.