Chinese Painting China can boast of a succession of great painters for the past twelve centuries,with some worthy of note who lived and worked much earlier.As Chinese writing is,in its earlier form,merely a kind of pictorial representation of ideas,writing and painting developed together,and the distinguished penman is usually also a painter of note.By the end of the third century BC painting was a developed art,as distinct from writing,and since that time several schools have flourished and given place to later developments. 公元前三世纪末叶，绘画发展成为一门与书法完全分开的艺术， 并且从那时起，许多书法流派经历了兴衰。Chinese Painting China can boast of a succession of great painters for the past twelve centuries, with some worthy of note who lived and worked much earlier. As Chinese writing is, in its earlier form, merely a kind of pictorial representation of ideas, writing and painting developed together, and the distinguished penman is usually also a painter of note. By the end of the third century BC painting was a developed art, as distinct from writing, and since that time several schools have flourished and given place to later developments. 公元前三世纪末叶，绘画发展成为一门与书法完全分开的艺术， 并且从那时起，许多书法流派经历了兴衰