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For many years, the inside-painting art of China always kept its feudal statue. People were interested in talking about its commercial value, but refused to accept any effort to help the inside-painting art step out of the morass. The inside-painting art got prosperous and was delighted by the dignitaries of the royal courts, so it was covered with the mysterious veil by its quaint working. Though the inside-painting art has the history of two hundred years, it was always regarded as the handicraft, this made it hesitated between the embarrassment of copying and imitating.

Inside-painting art of China initiated from the appearance of the glass snuff-bottle.

After many years of development, it formed the different style, mainly include: Pecking style��Shandong style��Hebei style. Because of the industrialization and the commerce character, the staff number of this work increases very quickly. Among these three styles, Hebei style developed the quickest.

When we face this prosperous phenomenon, we should pay attention to the crisis behind it. Whatever how people prized the inside-painting works as rear curios, they had neglected one important subject. It is that "if the inside-painting art can break away from the attachment position, abandon the limitation of the snuff-bottle and gain the independence to be a true art, not just the skill of the handwork?"

It maybe a little cruel for us to raise this proposal. One site, this will break up the tradition of two hundred years of the inside-painting art, tear up the old custom. But on the other hand, this will bring a revolution to the art. The melting of "optical art" and "space art" makes it possible to form the new inside-painting art.

From the beginning of different styles were created, after the effort of several generations, because of the limitation of the history and the limited literature view of some inside-painting artists, add the traditional shortcoming of the art itself, people have no idea to think about the traditional theory. The difference among Pecking style��Shangdong style and Heibei style is just expressed on the different understanding of different content��style and skill of the traditional art, and had no fundamental change on the though and any innovation to the art. This made the inside-painting art tedious and had no strength to step out of the limited nest,

"Where is the outlet of the inside-painting art". With this qualm, we began to pay attention to the inside-painting experiments of Yizi. The changing way and the challenging idea expressed his confidence to the art. This revolutionary behavior gave us edification. We can find that Yizi is using his heart and emotion to create the art world.