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Huashanshuixu

essay by Zong Bing

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views on Chinese landscape painting

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    In Chinese painting: Three Kingdoms (220–280) and Six Dynasties (220–589)

    …of the early 5th century, Huashanshuixu (“Preface on Landscape Painting,” China’s first essay on the topic), attributed to Zong Bing. Zong suggests that if well-painted—that is, if both visually accurate and aesthetically compelling—a landscape painting can truly substitute for real nature, for, even though miniaturized, it can attract vital energy…

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