Although Dong Qichang's classification of landscape painting in the Southern and Northern Dynasties provided a philosophical concept for future generations to analyze painting, he advocated that literati painting should use Zen as a metaphor and emphasized the painter's moral cultivation and ideological realm, which had a negative impact on the development of Chinese painting. However, the theory of northern and southern sects has also contributed to the sectarian dispute in painting, which has obvious negative effects.
Famous Ming painters Lan Ying, Wang Jian and Yuan Shu took him as their teacher, and Lan Ying's masterpieces such as White Clouds and Mangroves were collected by the Palace Museum. Yuan Shu's Ten Stones in Pingquan is collected in Guangdong Museum, and boating in Songxi is auctioned in Beijing Guardian on September 13.