百工是中国传统社会对各类技艺人的总称,他们来源于原始社会部落里擅长某种手工业的氏族和大家庭。中国画工是百工之一,他们世代传授技艺,是传统美术重要的创造者和继承者。与文人美术相比,画工美术的历史更为悠久,传世作品更为繁多,与实用美术的关系更为密切。但由于在传统社会,画工地位较为低下,导致其在历史上默默无闻者多,著录姓名者少。中国传统美术的背后,渗透了画工的艰辛。对这一群体及其技艺的全方位关注,应是美术史所不可忽略的任务。 Hundreds of workers are the general term for all kinds of artisans in traditional Chinese society. They come from the clans and extended families who are good at some kind of handicraft industry in the primitive social tribes. Chinese painters are one of the hundreds of workmanship, their generations to teach skills, is an important creator and successor of traditional art. Compared with the literati art, painter art has a long history, more numerous works handed down, and the relationship between practical art more closely. However, due to the relatively low status of painters in traditional societies, many of them are unknown in history and their name is recorded less. Behind the traditional Chinese art, infiltration of painter painter. The full attention to this group and its art should be a task that can not be ignored in the history of art.