You know, Chinese painting reached a zenith back in the Southern Sung and Yuan dynasties, a perfection in the use of ink, brush and creasing methods that proved confining and inhibiting for artists afterward.
你知道，中國的繪畫在南宋及元朝時就已經達到了最高點，用筆、用墨，以及各種皴法都發展得淋漓盡致，以致於後人一直跳不出這個框框。