In the history of Chinese fine arts， there is a special category - literati painting， which is classified by the painters identity and temperament of works rather than the painting objects. The Literati painting is created by literati and Scholar-bureaucrats and full of their features and taste.

在中國美術(shù)史上，有一個(gè)特殊的“門類”。它不是以繪畫對(duì)象來分門別類，而是以繪畫者的身份和作品的氣質(zhì)來識(shí)別。它就是文人畫——文人所作的畫，充滿文人氣息的畫。