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Chinese Painting Knowledge Chinese Painting Online Chinese Landscape Painting (Provide by /) Chinese Landscape Painting (Shan shui) Shan shui (Landscape. Chinese: 山水lit. mountain-water) refers to a style of Chinese painting that involves or depicts scenery or natural landscapes, using a brush and ink rather than more conventional paints. Mountains, rivers and often waterfalls are prominent in this art form. History Shan shui painting first arose to prominence during the 5th century, in the reign of the Liu Song Dynasty. It was later characterized by a group of landscape painters such as Zhang Zeduan, most of them already famous, who produced large-scale landscape paintings. These landscape paintings usually centered on mountains. Mountains had long been seen as sacred places in China, which were viewed as the homes of immortals and thus, close to the heavens. Philosophical interest in nature, or in mystical connotations of naturalism, could also have contributed to the rise of landscape painting. The art of shan shui, like many other styles of Chinese painting has a strong reference to Taoist (Daoist) imagery and motifs, as symbolisms of Taoism strongly influenced Chinese landscape painting. Some authors have suggested that Daoist stress on how minor the human presence is in the vastness of the cosmos, or Neo-Confucian interest in the patterns or principles that underlie all phenomena, natural and social lead to the highly structuralized nature of shan shui. Concepts Chinese Painting Knowledge Chinese Painting Online Most dictionaries and definitions of shan shui assume that the term includes all ancient Chinese paintings with mountain and wate