清代画家沈宗骞撰著的《芥舟学画编》是一部较为系统地总结中国绘画理论为今人多加称道的著作。其中“传神总论”更被认为是古典画论中最精采最正确的优秀之作,而被得到广泛地介绍。在我国绘画界处在苏联画派一家独统的时期,有的同志甚至把它推为中国画中的“契斯恰柯夫体系”(取其典范意),用以指导我们的中国画实践和艺术教学。在中国绘画史上,对于艺术形象的“形 Qing Dynasty painter Shen Zongqian’s ”mustard school painting“ is a more systematic summary of Chinese painting theory for today more than commendable works. Among them, ”General Theory of Expressions“ is even considered as the most brilliant and correct masterpiece of classical painting, which has been widely introduced. At the time when the Soviet Union’s school of painting was an exclusive period in China’s painting circle, some comrades even pushed it to be the ”Schechcakov system“ in Chinese painting (to take its typical example) to guide our practice of Chinese painting And art teaching. In the history of Chinese painting, the ”shape" of the artistic image