An Exploration of the Application of the Traditional “Master-Apprentice System” in the Inheritance of Chinese Painting

The traditional mentoring system has lasted for thousands of years in China’s fine arts education, which has trained a large number of artists and enabled China’s excellent traditional fine arts skills to be inherited and developed. However, with the development of modern education, the traditional mentoring system has been gradually replaced by other educational models due to its low efficiency. Today, when the inheritance of Chinese painting was re-examined, we can find the outstanding contribution of this traditional mentoring mode. It can be said that it is an indispensable talent training mode for the inheritance of Chinese painting. In this regard, this paper analyzes the traditional “mentoring system” in the inheritance of Chinese painting, discusses the teaching law of this mode, and hopes to find a complementary path with the modern education mode, to lay a solid foundation for promoting the inheritance of Chinese painting.