This spirit of enquiry helped bird-and-flower painting develop to extraordinary levels of skill. Some artists spent their whole lives painting just one kind of bird, observing every aspect of its life in minute detail, from its gait and flight to how it laid its eggs.
格物精神把花鳥畫發展到極致，有些畫家一輩子只畫一種鳥，從走動、飛行、產卵… 觀察得無微不至。