Characteristics of Traditional Landscape Paintings in China

China's traditional landscape painting is characterized by taking landscape as its theme and showing the harmonious relationship between man and nature.

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China's landscape painting is called "landscape painting" for short. Chinese painting with landscape as the main description object. It was formed in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, but it has not been completely separated from figure painting. Sui and Tang dynasties were independent from beginning to end, and matured in the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, becoming an important branch of Chinese painting. Traditionally, it is divided into green landscape, golden landscape, ink landscape, light crimson landscape, small green landscape and boneless landscape according to painting style.

China's landscape paintings are the heaviest precipitation of China people's feelings. The mainland cultural consciousness of traveling around mountains and water, the inner cultivation consciousness of taking mountains as morality and water as nature, and the optical illusion consciousness at hand have always become the main axis of landscape painting interpretation. From landscape painting, we can concentrate on appreciating the artistic conception, style, charm and tone of Chinese painting.

No painting discipline can give China people more emotions like landscape painting. If we argue with people, landscape painting is a national heritage, a classical style, a national image and a humanistic temperament. Compared with western landscape painting, China landscape painting is at least 1000 years old. In fact, it is a history of China's thoughts. As early as 7000 years ago, the awakening of the ancients was recorded in the form of patterns.

Hemudu culture in Neolithic age has expressed the connotation of conceptual culture through line engraving. The origin of settled farming civilization not only makes people realize the beauty of tools, but also the beauty of metaphysics above tools. Art is not only an imagination to conquer nature, but also a symbol to conquer nature.

From the beginning of ancient times and nature, with lively and logical discovery and artistic appreciation, people's eyes are interpreted, which makes a China schema of harmony between man and nature move from chaos to clarity. Since Yangshao culture, the relationship between man and nature has been symbolic. In geometric decoration technology, the concepts of symmetry and motion have been obviously applied to the expression of time and space.

What is particularly touching is "Sacrifice to the God Ji". Under the background of building a country by agriculture, it has always been a practice to offer sacrifices to the millet god. The relationship between crops, fields and people in this painting conveys our ancestors' simple understanding of the meaning of life. Based on the understanding of the natural relationship among people, animals and plants, social consciousness has become the most critical origin of civilization.