Translation | Comprehension Questions Text B    Chinese Painting     When was painting a developed art? Can foreigners appreciate Chinese paintings easily? Why? What makes up the principal subjects of Chinese paintings? What do Chinese paintings pay attention to? What is the reason that many fine Chinese paintings hundreds of years old appear by the freshness of the colors to have been painted but yesterday?                       By the end of the third century BC painting was a developed art. No. It’s difficult for foreigners to appreciate Chinese paintings. Because developed without any outside influence, Chinese painting is entirely different from European. Landscapes ,the symbolic figures of Buddhism and Taoism and famous figures of Chinese history. They always pay attention to the harmony of composition and subtlety of conception. The reason is that instead of being hung on walls , the paintings are put away and only brought out occasionally.