Original freehand brushwork, interesting. He claimed that he should have "true spirit, true interest and true meaning"
Shen Zhou literati's landscape freehand brushwork and flower-and-bird painting became the leading figures in Wu Pai. Some of his landscape paintings describe mountains and rivers and show the three-dimensional view of traditional landscape paintings. However, most of the works describe the southern landscape and garden scenery, showing the leisure and interest of the literati life at that time. Shen Zhou's paintings have made two great contributions to traditional landscape painting: one is to integrate the south into the north and carry forward the tradition of literati painting. For example, Shen Zhou's rough brushwork of mountains and rivers has merged into the rigidity and toughness of Zhejiang School, and the mountains and valleys have increased the strength and potential of seeing people, which has merged the vastness of Southern Song Dynasty with the grandeur and fluency of Northern School, and the emotions expressed have changed from quiet to broad and peaceful. Second, further combine poetry, books and paintings. Huang Tingjian, a calligrapher in Shenzhou, has a "vigorous and extraordinary" brushwork, which is very similar and harmonious with his vigorous landscape paintings. He also applied the skills of calligraphy to painting. At the same time, Shen Zhou was a poet, and he was "vigorous and frustrated, rich and old" in his later years. He combined this poetic style with painting style to make his paintings more poetic.