墨竹在中国画中久盛不衰。南北朝时代的敦煌壁画中已出现竹画。唐代王维所画之竹曾摹刻上石,犹能从现存之旧拓本中窥其大略。五代时卫贤、赵干的画迹中有竹。北宋文同的墨竹表现出竹叶互生之竹枝,是里程碑式的作品。元代画家如李衎、顾安、倪瓒等,创作态度均极严肃,使中国墨竹无可争议地登上古典艺术之美的高峰。李衎创出竹叶结组之法,他也是我国第一部艺用《竹谱》的作者。明代写意画流行,但从徐渭的作品中可以看出,写意画实应以写实为基础。清代郑燮之竹具诗、书、画三绝,是文人画的典型。 Ink bamboo in Chinese painting for a long time. Southern and Northern Dynasties Dunhuang murals have emerged in bamboo painting. Bamboo painted by Wang Wei in the Tang Dynasty was engraved with stone and still can be seen from the extant old rubbings. Five generations of Wei Yin, Zhao dry paintings in bamboo. The same ink bamboo in the Northern Song Dynasty showed bamboo branches alternate, is a landmark work. Yuan painters such as Li Kui, Gu An, Ni Zan, etc., are very serious creative attitude, so that Chinese ink bamboo boarded the peak of beauty of classical art undisputedly. Li Kui create a bamboo knot law, he is also China’s first artistic “bamboo spectrum” of the author. In the Ming Dynasty, freehand brushwork was popular, but it can be seen from Xu Wei’s works that freehand brushwork should be based on realistic painting. Zheng Xie of the Qing Dynasty bamboo poem, book, painting three musts, is typical of literati painting.