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According to historical records, the earliest landscape paintings emerged during the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317---420 A. D.). Wuzhong Xishan Yiju Tu (The Landscape of Wu) by Dai Kui and Xuejitang Wulaofeng Tu (The Wulao Mountains in the Snow) by Gu Kaizhi were regarded as two earliest paintings of this kind. 民俗节庆网
In the wake of Gu and Dai, landscape painting saw further development. And furthermore, some critical works on landscape paintings also appeared. It is evident that landscape painting was quite popular at that time. Among those critics, Zong Bing and Emperor Yuan of Liang of the Southern Dynasty were well-known.
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During the Tang Dynasty (618---907 A. D.), the development of landscape painting reached its peak and many famous landscape painters, such as Wu Daozi, Li Sixun, Li Zhaodao, and Wang Wei, appeared. Wu Daozi was respected as a painting sage by later generations for his free and bold strokes and imagination, which revolutionized the previous style of painstaking delineation of details. Li Sixun was known for his painting of massive mountains and for his clever display of colors. His son, Li Zhaodao, developed his own style of great tenderness and finesse of spirit while learning from his father. Their paintings are named as "senior and junior Li's landscape painting". Wu Daozi and Li Sixun were taken as the founders of the Northern School of landscape painting. Wang Wei, a painter who carried the subjective element to the highest extent, surprised us by his free and fast strokes and by the novelty and strangeness of his conceptions. He began the method of xuandan painting, i.e. painting by woolly, light-colored ink-strokes in contrast to the method of painstaking fidelity to details. Wang Wei was regarded as the founder of the Southern School. Chinese Folklores & Festivals Website
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