Abstract: Chinese traditional painting is an important component of Chinese excellent traditional culture which has gone through more than one thousand years. Still in the process of development and reformation, Chinese painting has rich and profound cultural tradition, philosophical and artistic principle, and image realm. We must adhere to the concept of continuity and expansion, deepen our cognition of the core of the Chinese traditional "painting ethics", carry forward the poetic wisdom and aesthetic ideals of the traditional painting's spirit, so as to achieve the Chinese traditional painting's contemporary value by promoting its creative transformation as well as innovative development.