The Chinese painting composition rules are depending on practical and aesthetic nature. At present, the translation research on Chinese painting texts is few. In order to make cross-cultural understanding faster and better, the cultural connotation behind it is the basic problem that needs to be solved. This paper attempts to use the illustration-based means-original picture editing, simple drawing, and GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) as visual representations to help translate the semantic information of the Chinese painting composition rules, in order to meet the needs of modern reading, and consolidate the effect of Chinese culture “going out”.