Chen Hongshou's paintings, especially the double-hooked colored flower and bird paintings that he is famous for in the art world, are characterized by three characteristics, one is the ancient clumsiness of the shape, the other is the ancient color of the color, and the third is the allegorical and stiff line, which is thick and rounded. "Sketchbook of Flowers, Birds, Grasses and Insects" is a rare masterpiece of Chen Hongshou, a painting wizard of the Ming Dynasty. The album has a total of twelve pages, colored on silk, and painted camellia butterflies, peach blossom butterflies, Xuanhua snails, peony butterflies, rose butterflies, purple chrysanthemum butterflies, bamboo birds, daffodil bamboo leaves, ancient locust double birds, red fruit grass worms, strange stones, plum stones and other scenery, the department: "Xishan Hongshou is written in the Rongshan Mountain Pavilion", each opening has "Hongshou" Zhu Wen Changfang print and Qing Rensun are all right, and there are signatures in front of the book : Chen Zhanghou Flowers, Birds and Insect Sketches, Look at the Treasures of the Seal Building, Pharmacy Bookmarks", after the painting there are three questions of Chong'en, Pan Hou and Pan Jingzheng.
Chen Laolian, with his independent and unreliable style of high ancient qi, broke through the barriers of formalism, and suddenly emerged in the painting world after the late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, with the influence of vibration and deafness, the influence of decay and decline, and on the road of the development of Chinese objects, it has stood a milestone. The history of painting commented on Chen Laolian: "Gaiming has not had this pen and ink for three hundred years." Chen Laolian's paintings were on a par with Cui Zizhong, the northern figure painters at that time, and were called "Southern Chen Beicui", which had a lingering afterglow and has always affected the modern painting world, Lu Xun pushed: "Lao Lian's paintings are masterpieces of a generation."
