Gu Kaizhi (348-409), born in Wuxi, Jinling (now Wuxi, Jiangsu), was an outstanding painter in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Gu Kaizhi is knowledgeable and talented. He is proficient in poetry and calligraphy, especially painting. He is good at portraits, Buddha statues, animals, mountains and rivers and so on. At that time, people called it three unique skills: painting, writing and infatuation. Existing works include "The Goddess of Luo Fu Tu" and "The True Map of Female History".

2. Zhan Ziqian

Zhan Ziqian (about 550-604) was born in Bohai (now Hejian County, Hebei Province) and was an outstanding painter in Sui Dynasty. After the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he entered the Sui Dynasty and served as a doctor and governor in his tent. He painted many murals in monasteries in Luoyang, Chang 'an and Yangzhou. Especially the landscape achievement is the highest; The description of the characters is meticulous, and then the faces of the characters are dizzy and extremely profound.

Later generations called him "the ancestor of Tang painting" and "the ancestor of landscape painting". You Chuntu, a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation, is a unique painting style in China's landscape painting and the oldest existing scroll landscape painting in China.

3. Yan Liben

Yan (60 1—673) was born in Wannian, Yongzhou (now Lintong County, Shaanxi Province) and was an outstanding painter in the Tang Dynasty. Born into a noble family, he was the son of Yan Pi, a painter in Sui Dynasty, and the brother of Yan Lide. Emperor Taizong was an assistant minister of punishments. In the early Qing dynasty, my brother was the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and the first year of General Zhang was the right prime minister. Good at painting and calligraphy, the most refined. The subjects of painting are quite extensive. Existing works include Kings of Past Dynasties and Walking Map.

4. Wu Daozi

Wu Daozi, a native of Yangzhai (now Yuxian, Henan), was an outstanding painter in the Tang Dynasty. His painting history was honored as a "warrior saint" and was called a "painting saint" by later generations. His existing works include the picture of the heavenly king sending his son, the statue of Confucius, and the volume of eighty-seven immortals.

5. Zheng Xie

Zheng Xie (1693— 1765), whose real name is Xie, whose word is Kerou, also known as Xinghua, Jiangsu, was an outstanding painter in Qing Dynasty. Kangxi scholar, Yongzheng juren, the first year of Qianlong Jinshi. He lived in Yangzhou all his life and made a living by selling paintings. One of the eight eccentrics in Yangzhou. He is good at painting orchids, bamboos, stones, pines, chrysanthemums and other plants, among which bamboo painting has been more than 50 years, with the most outstanding achievements.