Why do most of the Chinese landscape paintings show fishermen instead of farmers?

China's culture is very diverse and has a long history, and it has given birth to countless categories of art. Just like the art of painting and calligraphy, we now have simple brush drawing, crayon drawing, color ink painting and landscape painting and so on various. And landscape painting it to light and fresh high style of life attitude by some people's favorite, in the landscape painting, we can often see the phenomenon of a fisherman, this is because the fisherman is more poetic and picturesque, the farmer is generally unusual.

I. The picture of a fisherman is very nice and quiet

The most important thing in fishing is the quietness of the surroundings, if you make a little noise, the fish will be scared away, so it creates a quiet beauty, in line with the quiet character of Chinese landscape painting. At the same time, it may also be related to a poem by Liu Zongyuan, the lone boat Demoiselle Weng, fishing in the snow, a white and a black, forming a strong contrast, but also creates a landscape painting unique mood beauty. Fishermen are relatively rare, and fishing places are large rivers, there is a majestic mood of beauty, coupled with the description of the individual, it forms a strong conflict, the contrast caused by the better artistic effect.

Second, farmers are running for their lives

China is a large agricultural country, so far there are still a lot of people farming, not to mention in the ancient society before. The number of farmers accounted for more than 90% of the country's population, as a farmer, is to run for life, compared to the fisherman is more lack of a mood of the picture. And the farmer's life is heavy, they have a very busy farm work? There is no fisherman kind of quiet feeling, into the landscape painting, some different. And the farmers are in the majority, and being painted by some general writers inside the paintings would be bland.

The place where the farmer farms is just a small piece of land, he is not like the fisherman, in the big river just meet the characteristics of landscape painting. Planting place, it can be very casual, even in a corner outside the room can be, Chinese landscape painting is mainly to outline the lines, and the lines will not be able to draw the condensed details of the painting, the fisherman's picture is simple, painted inside the landscape painting will be more appropriate, so most of the Chinese landscape paintings appear to be a fisherman, not a farmer.