Chinese painting in Taiwan was a legacy passed down from the islanders 'Han Chinese ancestors. But because the place had so much contact with outside cultures, Lin explained, the style of painting changed. The Japanese called it wan-sei (the Taiwanese style) to distinguish it from Japanese painting proper.
台灣的國畫本來就是祖國的延長，只是因為地方環境和外來文化交融下，產生了變化，當時的日本人就以「灣製繪畫」稱之，顯示它與日本畫之不同。