The course Appreciation of Chinese Classical paintings, rooted in the discipline of art history and falling within the scope of Chinese art history, is a rich, ideologically significant, and far-reaching course. This paper explores the course from two aspects: its profound role and teaching strategies. The profound role addresses the importance of offering courses in the appreciation of Chinese paintings; the teaching strategies focus on how to achieve effective classroom outcomes in such a course. These two issues are raised in response to the current state of the course, and therefore, this paper emphasizes analysis and proposes solutions.