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Compared with the Yangzhou School and Jingling School contemporaneously, Jingjiang School seems to be less developed in the aspects of historical position and artistic effects. Actually, this might attribute to the limited and less familiarity with the multitude. During the further research, the artistic opinions and style, the cultural background, the guiding ideology and the artistic values in Jingjiang School which differs with other schools are reinterpreted. Therefore, it receives more and more affirmations.Reviewing the artistic history of Zhenjiang, it is not hard to find that the painting tradition of Zhenjiang has originally its own sources. From Wang Qia who invented the techniques of splitting drawing of landscapes to the Two Mi during the North Song dynasty who loved the landscapes of Zhengjiang earnestly and invented water-ink painting from inhibition which is called Mi's Landscape; during the South Song dynasty, from Zhao Pei to Guo Tianxi, all of them follow the style of "Leisure Taste". In the dynasty of Ming and Qing, people of talent come forward in large numbers in the field of Jingjiang School. Inspired by Dan Chongguang's Huaquan, some native painters such as Wang Wenzhi, Pan Gongshou, Zhang Yin and so on who invented "natural set of landscapes" which portrays the landscapes of their hometown. And they are called the Jingjiang Shool. As the chief character, Zhang Yin ascertained the guiding ideology of their school as "Imitating the Nature and following one's own rules". Thus he advanced the art of painting and calligraphy in Zhengjiang to another pinnacle. However, due to the over-emphasis on local complex, also pulsed by the affections of cultures of secluded leisure, the spreading of Jingjiang Shool suffered limitations. Therefore, it transferred from floweriness to insipidity, from objectivity to faintness.