There is a star pool in Qi Baishi's hometown. There are many shrimps and grasses in the pond. When Baishi was young, he often played by the pond and became attached to shrimp. Happy childhood scenes have also become the material of his paintings. In order to draw shrimps well, Qi Baishi kept the long-arm freshwater shrimps in a water bowl on his desk, so that he could often observe the shape of shrimps and draw sketches to better understand their structure and dynamics. At this time, his shrimp is very similar, but the ink color lacks change. Although his eyes are realistic, they lack translucent texture.

Later, in the process of watching shrimp, Qi Baishi wrote about the advance and retreat of shrimp, the urgency of swimming, and even fighting and jumping. Add more changes to the change of pen and ink to make the shrimp feel transparent. After that, the old man Baishi's water kung fu is even more wonderful. The shrimp he painted seems to be always wet, as if he really lives in water, and a piece of white paper turns into a stream of clear water. This is the idea of painting shrimp with white stone.

Introduction of Qi Baishi's painting characteristics;

1. Simplicity and simplicity: Qi Baishi's painting style is often simple and simple, and he pursues to express the deepest thoughts and emotions with the simplest lines and colors. He is good at refining complex natural forms into typical images by deleting complex ones and simplifying them, so as to describe the spirit in form and achieve the artistic effect of both form and spirit.

2. Unique formal beauty: When painting animals such as shrimps, crabs and chickens, Qi Baishi pays attention to capturing and depicting the details of objects, and at the same time integrates his own feelings and experiences, so that these works not only have high artistic value, but also have unique formal beauty.

3. The pen and ink are smooth and similar in form and spirit: Qi Baishi's paintings pay attention to the expression of pen and ink and the application of techniques, with flexible brushstrokes, rich and varied ink colors and vivid images. He is good at expressing the internal spirit and external form of the object perfectly by observing and feeling the natural form, so as to achieve the effect of both form and spirit.