中国从前的绘画史,不出两种方法,即其一是断代的记述,他一是分门的记述。凡所留存到现在的著作,大都是随笔札记,当为贵重的史料是可以的,当为含有现代意义的“历史”是不可以的。绘画的——不只是绘画,以至艺术的历史,在乎着眼作品本身之“风格发展”(Stilentwicklung)。某一风格的发生、滋长、完成以至开拓出另一风格,自有横在它下面的根源的动力来决定;一朝一代的帝皇易姓实不足以界限它,分门别类又割裂了它。断代分门,都不是我们现在要采用的方法。我们应该采用的,至少是大体上根据风格而划分出时期的一种方法。对于这点,即中国绘画史之时期的划分,若干外国人 There are no two ways in the history of Chinese painting. One is the account of the epoch, and the other is the account of the division. Most of the books kept to the present are mostly essays. It is possible to use precious historical materials, but it is impossible for history to contain modern meanings. Painting - not just painting and even the history of art, cares about the “style of development” of the work itself. The development of a certain style, its growth, its completion, and even its opening up to another genre has its own motive force to determine its origins. The successive generations of the emperor are simply not enough to limit it, separate them and separate it. Disintegration, are not the method we are going to adopt now. We should adopt, at least, a method of dividing the periods generally in terms of style. For this point, the division of the period of Chinese painting history, a number of foreigners