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As one of the most important forms of art, drawing technique is crucial for the expression of independent esthetic value and artistic conception. Drawing technique of traditional Chinese painting not only carries natural physical image but also contains rich meaning. This is a process from physical image to meaning. Generally, drawing technique of traditional Chinese painting starts containing reach meaning from the portraits such as ones on the rock and utensil in the early period human civilization. In narrow sense, relative to drawing technique of exquisite brush portrait, it traced back to the folk drawing technique in Wei and Jin Dynasty, not in ShiKe and LiangKai period. Compared with one of scenery flower-and-bird painting, drawing technique of portrait is weak and lean. In the modern time, there are some drawings which have cleared up traditional drawing technique. In these drawings, independent esthetic value of drawing technique has been replaced by the whole picture structure. Drawing technique is regarded as the medium of expressing the artist's feeling. It also belongs to arrangement element of pictures. These artists don't care about the difference between brushwork and drawing technique. This paper thoroughly discusses the characteristic and value of drawing technique. We should root in the traditional Chinese culture, at the same time we also have a broad judgment to absorb merits of all kinds of art. It is the key way for us to make the drawing technique of Chinese traditional portrait to keep a good stance.