Longcheng Painting School, like many famous painting and calligraphy schools, has gone through the process of oral transmission and printing: Longcheng Painting School, as a complete term of painting and calligraphy schools, officially appeared in newspapers after a long period of oral transmission. It is an article entitled "The Hometown of Chinese Painting-Xiaoxian County, Anhui Province" in the third series 1982 of authoritative calligraphy and painting publication "Duoyun". The author is a famous journalist Chang Hao En; 1October 28th, 1984, 165438+ Professor Yang Jianhou of Nanjing Normal University published the article "Rooted in the Soil, Growing in Leaves —— Comment on Xiaoxian Painting Exhibition, the hometown of Chinese painting", in which the word "Longcheng Painting School" was also mentioned. On May 1987 and 15, Liu Haisu, a famous master of Chinese painting, published an article "Hui Qi, the First Artist of Virtue" in Anhui Daily, praising that "from the late Tongzhi period to the founding of the Republic of China, Longcheng School became famous and shocked Xu Huai ..." Since then, Longcheng School has formed, developed and begun to take shape. The term "Dragon City Painting School" frequently appeared in hundreds of newspapers and media such as People's Daily, CCTV, Anhui Daily and Anhui TV Station, and was recorded in the cultural history of Anhui Province.
"Dragon City Painting School" originated in the late Ming Dynasty, formed in the middle of Qing Dynasty, and developed in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. The influential painters in this period are, Wu, Lu, Hou Zian, Xie Laizhan, Wang, Yuan Rulin, etc. They broke through the painting style of the "Four Heavenly Kings" that enveloped the painting world, pursued the new trend of the times, and had strong personality in freehand brushwork, rough and bold realism and natural imitation. Their artistic ideas tend to be consistent, their techniques tend to be consistent, and they merge the north and the south, forming a new painting style and genre. Because of its great influence, the activity center is in Longcheng, so it is called "Longcheng Painting School".
After the Revolution of 1911, the New Culture Movement and Art Nouveau Movement rose rapidly, which gave the "Longcheng Painting School" a new development opportunity. If the influence of Xiaoxian painters in Qing Dynasty was limited to Xu Huai area, then the emergence of a group of painting masters such as Wang Ziyun, Wang, Wang, etc. really made Xiaoxian painters go to the whole country and even overseas.
After the founding of New China, the people became masters of their own affairs, and the art of calligraphy and painting really returned to the public. The "Longcheng Painting School" has further developed and a large number of artistic talents have emerged. There are many achievements in painting and calligraphy creation, rich and colorful painting and calligraphy activities, and full swing in painting and calligraphy education, which has created a new situation of unprecedented prosperity of painting and calligraphy in Xiaoxian County and brought the development of "Longcheng Painting School" into a golden age. 1993, the Ministry of Culture of People's Republic of China (PRC) (PRC) named Xiaoxian as the "hometown of calligraphy and painting art in China", which made the "Longcheng Painting School" whose influence was only centered on Xu Huai since the Qing Dynasty endowed with new connotations and its influence spread all over the country.