Chou Ying is one of the representative painters in Ming Dynasty. He, Shen Zhou, Wen Zhiming and Tang Yin are also called "Ming Sijia" and "Four Masters of Wumen", also known as "Four Masters of Tianmen". Shen, Wen and Tang not only won by painting, but also by poem inscription. As far as painting style is concerned, Tang and autumn are close, and usually only inscriptions are made in paintings.
He was a craftsman, worked as a painter in his early years, painted buildings for people, and then painted. When I was young, I made friends with many famous contemporary artists, who were highly valued by Wen Zhiming and Tang Yin. According to Peng Nian, a good friend, Shao not only admired Heng Weng () but also learned painting from Zhou Chen. He saw many ancient masterpieces, copied and created many fine works in the famous collector Xiang and Saturday Viewer. His creative attitude is very serious and meticulous, and every painting is rigorous and meticulous.
Chou Ying is good at painting figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, pavilions and pavilions, especially at copying. His skills are exquisite, and most of his manuscripts are imitations of famous writers in the Tang and Song Dynasties, such as Song People's Atlas and Xiao Zhao Gaozong Fuxing Map. If the former is compared with the original, it is almost difficult to distinguish between true and false. The painting method is mainly inherited from the "courtyard style" painting, green landscape painting and character story painting in Zhao Boju and the Southern Song Dynasty. The image is accurate, exquisite and elegant, the color is bright, the connotation is implicit, the color is elegant and beautiful, and it is integrated into the theme and pen and ink interest advocated by literati painting.
As for being rich and rich, it is exquisite and elegant, worthy of the ancients. He is especially good at expressing different objects with different strokes, either smooth or long and good at painting. The figures are accurate in modeling, strong in generalization, beautiful in image and smooth in lines. They are different from the old lettering habits and go straight to the Song Dynasty. They had a great influence on the later ladies' paintings in Youqiu, Yu and Qing Dynasty, and became a model of the beauty of ladies' paintings in the times. Later generations commented on his neat brushwork, delicate description, high spirits, exquisiteness and elegance, which made him outstanding in the Ming Dynasty. Excellent works include "Ancient Bamboo Forest", "Spring Dawn Map of Han Palace" (with pictures for this purpose) and "Service Map".