Chinese Paintings

For over a thousand years, since the T'ang dynasty, Chinese landscape paintings have been understood as both an intimate expression of nature and as a way of express deep emotions. Landscape paintings have traditionally been China's favorites Chinese painting as they show the poetry in nature. Literally translated, the Chinese characters for landscape mean "mountain and water". Almost all Chinese landscape paintings have mountains and water, also there can be found a river. The mountains represent a long life, and water the sea of happiness. Both symbolize a long happy life.