A model of convenience So far, China's cultural and philosophical differences from the West, its artistic main-stream of landscape painting, and the low status given to portrait painters have been cited to explain the scarcity of self-portraits in China. There is another reason: taboos.
最方便的模特兒除了文化思考的不同、山水畫為主流及畫家地位的低落，故宮博物院書畫處處長林柏亭推測，自畫像在中國較少，可能與「忌諱」有關。