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What are Chinese watercolours?
Chinese watercolours was a popular style of art from China. This started around 4000 B.C. and was developed continuously over a period of more than six thousand years. This came to a point in time where flowers,birds and,other animals were very popular to paint.  There is six principles in Chinese watercolour.
 1.Spirit Resonance which refers to the flow of energy that encompasses theme, work, and artist.
2.Bone Method, or the way of using the brush, refers not only to texture and brush stroke, but to the close link between handwriting and personality.
3.Correspondence to the Object, or the depicting of form, which would include shape and line

and many others.

 There is four seasons paintings and this photo above is one of them. This is a Plum Blossom and this represents the winter, orchid is for the spring, bamboo for the summer and chrysanthemum is for autumn. All of these styles are done on many materials such as rice paper and maybe even bark. Traditionally you would use a brush made out of bamboo with wolf fur.

And that is what Chinese watercolour is.