The most precious value of Zhao Zilin’s bird-and-flower paintings is reflected in the exploration of the most difficult article personality undoubtedly, the implications of pursuing boundless in paintings is undoubtedly the results of his long-term cultivation. In a sense, the soul of the freehand brushwork is "vivid artistic conception", and whether the artistic conception can be penetrated or not is clearly the key point of the "large" of the freehand brushwork. The preciousness of Zhao Zilin’s freehand flower-and-bird paintings is that he knows more than many contemporary artists how to use spirit on the paintings.

Zhao Zilin from Shandong Province is honest and simple. His freehand flower-and-bird paintings are not academic, even not of purely traditional literati paintings, but the plain and wonderful flowers blooming in the vast countryside. To be pure and unsophisticated, unadorned and vigorous, simple and extensive perhaps is the aesthetic implication of his pursuing boundless in paintings. In fact, the vitality of the freehand flower-and-bird paintings comes from the simple beauty of the countryside sublimated by the literati.