中国古代宫廷很早就有画师供职:周代名为“画史”;两汉时期有“尚方画工”和“黄门画者”;唐朝进一步分为供养、待诏、袛候等等。真正意义上的皇家御用画院机构始于五代,北宋统一中原后继承接收后周及西蜀、南唐的画院和画家,设立了翰林图画院。自此,画院制度日臻完善,日益隆盛,两宋时期也随之成为中国古代绘画史上的一个高峰。 The ancient Chinese court had long been engaged as an artist: the Zhou Dynasty was called “History of Painting”; during the Han Dynasty, there were “Shang Fang Hua Gong” and “Huang Men Painter”; the Tang Dynasty was further divided into support, Waiting and so on. In the true sense, the imperial royal art academy started in the Five Dynasties, and after the reunification of the Central Plains, Central Plains inherited the art galleries and painters of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Southern Tang Dynasty and set up the Hanlin Art Academy. Since then, the system of painting academies has been getting better and more prosperous, and the two Song Dynasties have also become a peak in the history of ancient Chinese painting.