There are two ways to use the date of Chinese painting: AD year and Lunar New Year.
The inscription of traditional Chinese painting is the author's name, year, month and porch number outside the writing of this article. Inscription and postscript is a key point in ancient literary creation, and there are many rules. Now some people advocate using the new calendar, the Gregorian calendar, to annotate the inscriptions of calligraphy works, emphasizing that pen and ink should keep pace with the times, while others advocate using the old calendar, the lunar calendar, emphasizing the maintenance of national characteristics and traditional habits. In fact, these two methods can be used at the same time.