中国早期的绘画主要以人物画为主。花鸟畜兽主要表现在一些石器、玉器、青铜器、漆器、画像石、画像砖及其一些墓室壁画上。两汉魏晋南北朝时期出现鸟兽、花木绘画,在帛画、墓室壁画表现上比较丰富,但此时还仅仅是花鸟画的萌芽阶段。唐代中期花鸟画形成独立画种,也出现了一些专门从事画花鸟画的画家。五代时期是花鸟画发展的一个重要时期,从遗留的作品中看花鸟画已经提高到了一个崭新的水品。两宋时期花鸟与山水并重,此时花鸟画盛极一时,工笔与写意各有发展,在后期的风格演变中逐渐完善了花鸟画的审美体系。一、花鸟画风格发展的审美倾向 Early Chinese painting mainly based on portraiture. Birds and animals mainly show in some stone, jade, bronze, lacquer, portrait stone, portrait brick and some of the tomb murals. In the period of Han, Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, birds and animals, flowers and plants appear, and are rich in silkscreen paintings and tomb murals. However, this is only the embryonic stage of flower and bird painting. In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, flowers and birds paintings formed an independent painting, and some painters specializing in painting flowers and birds also appeared. The Five Dynasties period is an important period for the development of flowers and birds painting. From the remaining works, flowers and birds paintings have been raised to a brand new water product. In the Song and Song dynasties, both birds and flowers were equally valued both for landscapes and flowers. At that time, flower and bird paintings flourished for a time, their meticulous writing and freehand brushwork developed, and the aesthetic system of flowers and birds painting gradually improved in the later evolution of style. First, the aesthetic tendency of the development of flower and bird painting style