Chinese Peasant paintings are created by Chinese farmers or peasant artists.  Chinese peasant painting, as an art genre, first emerged in the 1950s and took shape in the 1970s. Now a few counties in China get national fame for their peasant paintings,  like Huxian, Ansai, and Xinji, etc.

The characteristics of Chinese peasant paintings include:

• The subjects are closely related to their daily lives, including farm work, festivals, village customs, harvest scenes, and family;
• Heavy and vivid colors;
• Exaggeration. 

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