Wu Painting School is the main landscape painting school in Ming Dynasty. His works mostly describe the scenery and literati life in the south of the Yangtze River, express quiet and elegant feelings, pay attention to brushwork and pen and ink interest, and pay attention to the organic combination of poetry, books and paintings. The landscapes painted by painters in the Ming Dynasty can not only represent the magnificent and steep northern mountains and rivers, but also depict the beautiful and elegant southern scenery. They used skillful pen and ink to describe the surrounding garden scenery, raised the landscape painting that expressed the theme of literati's life to a new level, and opened up a new realm of landscape painting since Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

? Ming? Shen Zhou's "boating in the water town"

Landscape painting in Qing dynasty inherited the literati landscape painting in the late Ming dynasty, and the panoramic landscape painting style prevailed, forming two completely different artistic pursuits. During the Kangxi period, the panoramic landscape painting style led by the Four Kings Painting School occupied a dominant position. Their purpose is antique, which is valued by the royal family and occupies an orthodox position in the painting world. In addition, a group of Ming Dynasty painters living in the south of the Yangtze River expressed their feelings by painting, pioneering and innovating in art, represented by the Eight Schools of Jinling, the Four Monks and the Xin 'an School.

Qing? Wang Shimin's "Castle on the Fairy Hill"