工笔画是中国画中最早出现的一个画科。从战国时期楚墓中出土的《龙凤人物帛画图》和《御龙人物图》来看,中国画最早出现的形式是以线造型的,而工笔画的最基本形式就是白描。随着绘画技法的不断成熟,“黄家富贵徐熙野逸”的五代,以宋徽宗为首的宋代工笔画家更是使工笔画的技巧“法度”严格确立起来,逐渐形成了固定的程式化倾向,工笔绘画焕发出最为亮丽的光芒,而这一光芒也预示了传统工笔画的衰落。在北宋时 Brushwork is the earliest painting in Chinese painting. From the Chu Tombs unearthed in the Warring States Period, “Dragon and Phoenix figure” and “Dragon figure” point of view, the earliest forms of Chinese painting is the line modeling, and the most basic form of mechanical drawing is a white sketch. With the continuous maturation of painting techniques, the “Songs of the Song Dynasty” led by Song Huizong and the “Five Dynasties of the Five Dynasties”, “Huang Jiafu Gui Xiyuanyi”, established the fixed program The tendentious tendency, the fine brushwork glows the most beautiful light, and this light also foreshadowed the decline of the traditional fine brushwork. In the Northern Song Dynasty