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How are Chinese painting pigments made?
Chinese painting pigments are important tools of Chinese painting, including plant pigments and mineral pigments. Plant pigments are mainly extracted from trees and flowers, usually including cyanine, gamboge, rouge, magenta and so on.

Mineral pigments generally include cinnabar, vermilion, cinnabar, stone yellow, realgar, azurite, stone green, ochre, clam powder, lead powder, clay gold, clay silver, Taibai and so on. It is characterized by colorfastness and bright colors. Large areas of mineral pigments such as azurite, azurite and cinnabar can make people feel refreshed.

The Plum Blossom Picture by Luo, a female painter in Qing Dynasty, depicts Bai Mei with light ink and plum blossoms with thick ink. With rouge as boneless method, white beard and yellow core, Leng Yan is wonderful.

Ma Yi, a painter in Qing Dynasty, painted a colorful national picture with silk, which is a magnificent and meticulous flower picture. The peony in the picture is beautiful, bright and moving, rich in color, elegant in posture, extremely exquisite in color setting, and meticulous and round in hook line. Flower under the strange stone, with the combination of accumulated ink and light ink halo dyeing, slightly dyed stone green and azurite. Orchids covered with heavy powder and dyed with rouge are elegant and moving. The ground is rendered in light color, creating a sense of spatial expansion.