The exhibition uses a chronological timeline to showcase the famous painters who were born or lived in Yangzhou over the course of the 300 years of the Qing Dynasty. The exhibition comprises four sections: “Dedication to Art”, “Inheritance and Innovation”, “Distinctive Individuality” and “Decline in Art”. It shows the painting styles of painters who were adherents of a former dynasty, lived by painting, and drew literati paintings (paintings with the intellectuals thought). Their unique temperaments are all reflected in their landscape and figure paintings. Visitors can explore and enjoy the beautiful, secluded scenery of lakes and mountains across all four seasons as depicted in the paintings, or appreciate the distinctive characteristics of the Yangzhou school of painting, including landscapes, flowers and birds, and jiehua paintings (paintings featuring detailed renderings of architecture using a ruler with mountains and rivers as backgrounds and figures, boats, and carts as embellishments).