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What does Gongbi mean?

Meticulous painting, also called "fine painting", belongs to a category of Chinese painting techniques. Meticulous brushwork and freehand brushwork are symmetrical. Meticulous painting is a kind of meticulous painting, such as courtyard painting in Song Dynasty and figure painting in Chou Ying in Ming Dynasty.

Meticulous painting requires "cleverness and precision" (Han Zhuo's Complete Works of Mountains and Waters in Northern Song Dynasty), and meticulous painting can be expressed by ink painting, light crimson, turquoise, resplendent and magnificent, and boundary painting.

Meticulous painting attention

Generally speaking, meticulous brushwork needs to draw a manuscript first, and a complete manuscript needs to be revised repeatedly before it can be finalized. Then cover it with rice paper or adhesive alum silk, first outline it with a small pen, and then render it layer by layer with the color of the class, so as to achieve the artistic effect of both form and spirit, such as the autumn photos of Chen Zhifo.