"small pond of home is so clear to see the bottom, often look at shrimps swimming around" Qi Baishi, he responded to the shrimp, crab, fish, frogs, tadpoles in the family pond, and transferred them into personal characteristics in his painting themes and it become an important chapter in the history of Chinese painting in twentieth Century. With his extraordinary wisdom and rich emotions, he always focused on the theme of aquarium, continuously and repeatedly display the charm of his home pond, but also with shrimp as a symbol of the aquarium also became the Qi Baishi’s most representative element.

 

 

    Qi Baishi's strong interests in painting aquarium theme can be concluded as "Wild grass of the fox, the sky of the goose, waterside chicks" how shall not the free and lively, and perfect Qi Baishi look forward to a happy life in harmony. "Shrimp sit cross legged on the neighbors of wine, happy five hundred human years", the reason is Qi Baishi self portrait on the this place. 

 

 

     Image of the performance of the agricultural society of aesthetic taste, is peasant family background Qi Baishi reflect the kind of grass-roots culture discard the classics and rebel against orthodoxy, it distinguishes between the literati painting since Ming and Qing Dynasties and indulge in self-admiration yuan; literati painting in  the

otherworldly apart, however, Qi Baishi again to remove coarse literati self-cultivation, with literati ink moist folk taste. The visual image of aquarium appears in the literati painting on the road of development, and shine, which like "frog sound ten in spring" that rare poetry, has been for people to indulge in elaborating on.

 

 

    "Water in the family pound is so clear to the bottom, often see shrimps swimming around infinitely" Qi Baishi replied "painting shrimp resembles so far, from where learn to". Therefore, he said: "Other people painting shrimps, many of them try to imitate the shrimp, the shape is similar but it is not lively, because they do not have shape in their eyes." from the shrimp in their eyes, there will be shrimp, in their heart, that Qi Baishi's painting free in shape and change in spirit.  From the eyes in the heart, then from the heart to the eyes; including copying the ancient, may Qi Baishi entering into this change, and through this change become a qualitative leap.

 

 

    The relationship between Qi Baishi and the aquatic animals can be traced back to when he was 20 years old copying the patio master "shrimp" (draft, 1982). At the age of 66, Qi Baishi summed up his shrimp genre "it has changed several times at the beginning, only slightly like a variable, flawless, and discoloration of the three is deep or light." For other aquarium, Qi Baishi is also practicing so frequently, with his hard working ethics. In 1932, 70 year old Qi Baishi made paintings of fish, shrimp, crab in one picture, and created a new painting board, made his aquarium world become a rich and wonderful land.

 

 

    Qi Baishi excels in many aspects, among them, he draw the aquarium and common root seedlings, rushes and other aquatic plants combined together, not only enriched the picture, but also built the aquarium related to the natural environment for the people. No doubt, among all the great works, it is hard to avoid similarity. However, Qi Baishi constantly pursuit his performance of his creative spirit.

 

 

     Looking at the Qi Baishi Aquarium genre paintings, although the blank screen in his paintings left people with infinite aesthetic space of emptiness, when people enter into his aquarium world, they found his performance attracted by his "home pond", at this time, people also like to leave his heart of the art world and back into the eyes of his early realistic world, everything is so simple and so close to the nature.