Way back in the Warring States era, Chinese were studying their reflections in bronze mirrors, but then when Chinese scholar-painters directed their efforts toward landscapes, self-portraits became quite rare, and Chinese art took a very different path from Western art.
早在戰國時代，中國人就以銅鏡來端照自己，然而，寓託心志於山水筆墨的中國文人畫家，自畫像卻出現得相當少，與西方的發展方向完全不同。