In Chinese painting, painting flowers and birds are categorical term, which, even without the trees, vegetables, fruits, animals, insects and fish, flowers and birds. This category Painting was founded in the Tang Dynasty, and developed rapidly in the five dynasties, when many well-known painter grew. The painters of the Song dynasty resumed the tradition of the Five Dynasties and the strengthening of art at its peak. During the Song meticulous brush technique was the norm, and artists often follow closely the items to obtain accurate and complete knowledge of this. The legend says that Ouyang Xiu, a famous scholar of the Song Dynasty, an old picture of his collection, in which a cat was under a clump of peonies. One day, Ouyang showed this photo to a friend and the friend of the form of images, a scene that was noon. He explained that sent the petals fully, but the color was a bit boring, and the cat in the cluster had dark eyes, but reduced the students as a line, this time was given at noon. Careful observation shows that the morning dew covered flower petals and the color is intense, and students round the cats eyes in the morning or evening, but reduced to a line around noon.
Flower Care and painting of bird calls for a fair presentation of the objects. In these two sparrows and a hare (Shuang Xi Niao Tu Tu), the artist shows a scene in the garden in autumn. A sparrow chirped standing on a branch of the hare, the hare and turn her head to the sparrow. Another sparrow closes its wings and landed on a branch. The dry twigs, dry grasses and delicate bamboo waves in the air, and the viewer can almost hear the noise.

Occur for the same period as the flower and bird painting style was meticulous plan of thought of this art. The painters of this style, more attention to the expressive brushstrokes and their role in the detection of mind of the artist. The objects presented in more subjective than objective, more distant from the real objects in nature. To paint the grapes in ink (My Putao Tuesday), painter Xu Wei of the Ming Dynasty used the color and the technique of washing the leaves, vines and grapes. At first glance, the viewer, the grape can be found in very real, but they will soon recognize as glass washing the grapes from the ink. The artist is not trying to show the similarity between the grape, but his thoughts after going through all these difficulties and struggles. Da Zhu, a famous artist of the Ching dynasty, painted too specific in the eyes of fish and birds in his works. The strange eyes were large and in some cases, squares. Zhu was replaced by the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, and dominated the court of Qing Ming, Zhu has been seriously impaired. Lent his thoughts of sadness and contempt, his works, to caricature painting in Oriental art.