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Article: Sacred Earth: Daoism as a preserver of environment in Chinese landscape painting from the song through the Qing Dynasties.
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- East-West Connections
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Abstract
Like the Chinese garden, landscape painting can be understood as the artist's interpretation of a microcosmic view of the macrocosm of the universe, The Chinese term for landscape painting (shawhui hua), "mountains and water," implies the ancient Daoist balance between Yin and Yang, complementary forces generated by the cosmic Dao, Landscape painters from the Tang Dynasty onward have created this balance in their paintings, The Daoist beliefs in the sacredness of the Earth pervade and dominate the ways in which pictorial compositions are created, the ways in which mankind is represented in the landscape, and the ways in which nature is presented to and ...