中国古代花鸟画与人物画、山水画并列为中国画的三大画科。它不仅限于传统意义上的花卉与禽鸟,还包括畜兽、鱼藻以及树木、竹石、果蔬等,范围比较广泛。早在七千年前的浙江余姚河姆渡遗址中就发现了柄上饰有阴线双鸟饰纹的骨匕;尔后在新石器时期的仰韶文化遗址中,又出土了一批绘有完整鱼纹、鹳鸟等图案的陶器,随着人类社会的不 Ancient Chinese flowers and birds painting and figure painting, landscape painting and painting as the three major Chinese painting division. It is not limited to the traditional sense of flowers and birds, but also livestock, algae and trees, bamboo, fruits and vegetables, a wider range. As early as 7000 years ago, Zhejiang Yuyao Hemudu ruins found on the handle decorated with Yinxian double birds decorated grain bone dagger; later in the Neolithic Yangshao culture sites, and unearthed a group painted a complete fish pattern, Storks and other patterns of pottery, with the human society does not