Chinese Paintings Genre

Over thousands of years, the art of traditional Chinese painting has evolved from landscapes and figures to bird-and-flower.

Chinese figural paintings
Chinese figural paintings

Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Painting in the traditional style is known today in Chinese as guó huà, meaning "national painting" or "native painting", as opposed to Western styles of art which became popular in China in the 20th century. (Excerpt rom Wikipedia)