Landscape is regarded as one of the most beautiful scenes in nature by the ancients, and it is often praised for its humor and charm. In China's culture, many art forms depict mountains and rivers, and many elegant terms are used to describe these scenes.
First of all, "mountain" is a vocabulary that appeals to both refined and popular tastes in ancient times, and is often described as "beautiful mountain peaks" and "green cliffs and green valleys". These appellations not only show the height and precipitousness of mountains, but also convey the charm of mountain scenery such as "sea of clouds", "lush forests" and "strange pines and strange rocks", and express the vitality and diversity of mountain walls, dangerous peaks and trees.
And "water" is also deeply loved by people, and it is described as "clear spring and green pool" and "rivers, lakes and seas". In poetry and painting, flowing water is generally praised as life and dynamics, such as "a mountain flowing water" and "gushing". The ancients often confused mountains and rivers, so in their culture, "mountains and rivers" were sometimes regarded as a symbol of "Feng Shui".
Ancient poets also used elegant names to describe different sides of mountains and rivers. For example, words such as "smoke cloud" and "scenery" are used to describe the morphological characteristics of mountains and rivers; When describing the sky and its changes, use words such as Xia Guang, Cai Xia and Xiao Ai. These poems are often used for reference and practice by painters, who describe the subtle differences between weather changes, time changes and seasonal changes in landscape paintings.
To sum up, "landscape" is one of the essences of China culture. In the ancient people's appreciation of elegance and vulgarity, we can see the symbolic significance and spiritual pursuit of landscape for the ancient people's aesthetics.
They express their reverence and admiration for the landscape structure with poems with long charm, complicated brushwork and vivid patterns. In today's culture, many people try to express the charm and soul-stirring beauty of mountains and rivers through literary and artistic methods, and these works have also become outstanding representatives of China culture.