清初城市画坛，流派纷呈，更以江南为甚。至清中叶，几乎在江南诸文化名城的画家中，都能成一派之说。如江苏有“扬州画派”、“常州画派”、“吴派”余绪、“娄东派”、“虞山派”等，浙江有“武林派”余绪、“嘉兴派”等，安徽有“新安派”、“姑熟派”等，江西南昌还有“江 Early Qing Dynasty urban painting scene, the genre were numerous, even more to the south of Jiangnan. By the middle of the Qing dynasty, almost all of the painters in the famous cultural cities in the south of the Yangtze River turned all factions into groups. For instance, there are “Yangzhou School of Painting”, “Changzhou School of Painting”, “Wu School” Yu Xu, “Lou Dongpai School” and “Yushan School” in Jiangsu Province. Zhejiang has “Wuxing School” Yu Xu and “Jiaxing School” Anhui has “Xin’an School”, “familiar school” and so on, Nanchang, Jiangxi there are "Jiang