Zhang Zhiwen is known as "the world's first peony painter". It is understood that the famous painter Zhang Zhiwen was born in Luoyang, Henan Province, and his works have participated in many national art exhibitions. Since 1998, the peony picture of China is 500 meters long, which is called the world's first peony picture scroll, and was designated as a gift work at the 16th National Congress. Zhang Zhiwen was praised as "the world's first peony painter".

Famous painters in China who are best at peony painting in ancient and modern times are Empress Dowager Cixi, Xu Wei, Ren Bonian, Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, He Xiangning, Pan Tianshou, Zhao Jun, Liu, Shao Zhongjie, Li, Wang Junping and Chen Yang. There is no uniform standard for painting and calligraphy, because everyone has different appreciation level and aesthetic angle for each painter's works. Every painter's paintings and calligraphy works have their own people who like to be recognized.

The painter Huang Zejin put it better: "It's not because you don't like whose paintings are the worst. It's not because of whose paintings you like, whose paintings are the best. Painting itself is something without uniform standards and scales, and it is all expressed through exaggeration. Some people like what you don't like, and some people can understand what you don't. Therefore, no matter who you are, don't evaluate a painting or a painter on behalf of everyone from your personal point of view. No one in the world can represent everyone. "