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. "