Even if I am a flower and bird, I enjoy beauty. It can be said that Chou Ying was one of the representative painters of the Ming Dynasty, and later generations, together with Shen Zhou, Wen Zhiming and Tang Yin, were also called "Ming Sijia" and "Four Masters of Wumen". Shen, Wen and Tang not only won by painting, but also by writing poems. As far as painting style is concerned, Tang Yin and Chou Ying are close, while Chou Ying usually only inscribes in paintings. Then one year, in the process of reading history books, Chou Ying was deeply moved by the grandeur of palaces in the Han Dynasty, and a picture of palace life flashed in his mind. So he spread out the rice paper and drew a picture of spring dawn in the Han Palace, which has been circulated for several generations. However, Chou Ying passed away with regret before the painting "Spring Dawn in the Han Palace" was completed.
"Spring Dawn in Han Palace" is an outstanding representative of Chou Ying's lady painting. This painting is vigorous and elegant, and the painter uses the splendor of the royal garden to express the daily life of the concubines in the palace with extremely gorgeous pen and ink. It is not only a masterpiece of Chou Ying's life, but also unique in ancient ladies' paintings.
Chou Ying is good at figure painting, especially lady painting. He attached great importance to the description and portrayal of historical themes, and absorbed the skills of Ma and Yuan Zaju in the Southern Song Dynasty. His brushwork is vigorous, especially good at copying, drawing yellow paper with powder and putting pen to paper.
As for being rich and rich, it is exquisite and elegant, worthy of the ancients. He is especially good at expressing different objects with different strokes, either smooth or long and good at painting.
Characters are accurate in modeling, strong in generalization, beautiful in image and smooth in lines, which is different from the current engraving habits. They had a great influence on the later ladies' paintings in Youqiu, Yu and Qing palaces, and became a model of the beauty of ladies' paintings in Ming Dynasty. Later generations commented that his brushwork was neat, his description was delicate, his spirits were flying, and he was exquisite and elegant, which made him outstanding in the Ming Dynasty.
Besides, Chou Ying is not only good at painting, but also has high attainments in calligraphy. At one time, some calligraphy works were collected in the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty and hidden in the nourishing temple.