Abstract: ZHANG Daqian, with remarkable artistic achievements, is a renowned master of traditional Chinese painting in modern and contemporary Chinese art. In addition to his artistic creations, ZHANG proposed a profound theory of painting based on his long-term artistic practice. Translation is to convey the meaning in its full flavor, which is the translation thought proposed by WANG Rongpei (1994). It is adopted in this study, and is preliminarily applied to the English translation of ZHANG’s painting theory from the levels of words, sentences, and rhetorical devices. The aim is to, via the thought, spread the painting theory with Chinese characteristics nurtured by traditional Chinese culture.