Because of the rapid nature of making traditional Chinese paintings (ink with water on Chinese paper) millions or even billions of original paintings can be produced each year. This is not an exaggeration. Supposing that just one out of 1,000 people has a tendency to like to paint (by using ink with water on Chinese paper) and produces just 4 paintings in 1-2 hours a day (quite easy unless the size of paper is relatively large), he/she makes more than 1,000 paining a year even taking some holidays. And the population of China is over 1.3 billions. Even very high quality ones made by famous painters or those having good techniques but not famous in some reasons can be produced in thousands or some ten or hundred thousands every year. It is a great advantage for Chinese people to appreciate high quality original paintings with ease. Now the prices of the original Chinese paintings made by well known painters (no matter whether they are really goods or not) are quite expensive and seem to be over-evaluated contrast to the prices in 20-30 years ago - definitely under-evaluated. Due to the mass production nature it is the fact that even famous painters occasionally produced not very good ones or failures, which they did not destroyed and have been circulated in the market because of their names. Meanwhile the printing technology has improved a lot in China recently so very good quality prints of famous paintings of famous painters are available at very affordable prices. You can enjoy these prints but with some unsatisfactory feeling as these are not original. Why not try original ones of painters not so famous or unknown at all but high quality ones from a technical point of view or very good ones by your own standard and preference. These are also affordable for economically ordinary people. Original ones definitely differ from prints.
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