In China's paintings, line drawing is not only a kind of painting with independent artistic value, but also an exercise of basic modeling skills and an important process before meticulous painting. Line drawing can draw a static outline with lines and blanks, or it can show a dynamic rhythm. Painters of past dynasties in China have a profound understanding and superb creation of lines. They use all kinds of lines to express their feelings and describe nature, which makes "lines" have unique charm in works of art.
The map of Yuan Dynasty is a good representative. Chaotu is located in Sanqing Hall of Yongle Palace, which is a part of Yongle Palace mural and the highest model of mural art in Yuan Dynasty. It is the most important group of Taoist murals. Yuan Chao Tu depicts the scene of Daofu gods worshipping Buddha in the early Yuan Dynasty, hence the name "Chao Tu" * * * with a total of 394 portraits. The Five-Bull Map is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down from ancient times in China. The treasures collected by the Palace Museum in Beijing are national treasures. This was written by Han Yun in the Tang Dynasty. He experienced four generations from Xuanzong to Dezong, and was the son of Han Xiu, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. He is good at painting people and animals, and is famous for painting Tujia customs and cattle and sheep. Zhao Mengfu, a great painter and calligrapher in the Yuan Dynasty, got this famous painting, and he even feasted on it, leaving an inscription that "a wise man is the world with an open mind".