Blue-green shan shui
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Blue-green shan shui is a variety of shan shui, a style of Chinese painting that primarily depicts scenery. It tends to refer to an "ancient style" rather than modern ones. The main colours of the pai
A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains, Wang Ximeng, Song dynasty.
Emperor Minghuang's Journey to Sichuan; a blue-green shan shui painting depicting the flight of Emperor Xuanzong from Chang'an, a late Ming dynasty painting after an original by Qiu Ying (1494–1552).
Chinese painting
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Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Painting in the traditional style is known today in Chinese as guó huà, meaning "national painting" or "native painti
Huang Quan's Almanac of Birds and Beasts; Later Shu, c. 950 CE.
Early Autumn by Qian Xuan (1235–1305)
Views of Xiaoxiang by Dong Yuan (932–962). Dong is considered as one of the originators of landscape painting styles; the scales of such paintings were often huge, with minuscule yet intricate pastoralist subjects showing the relative enormity of the landscape. Zoom into the left to see a group of men engaging in seine-haul fishing.
Silk painting depicting a man riding a dragon, 5th century BCE.