Cultural Background and Philosophical Connotation of Chinese Landscape Painting

摘要

As an important category of Chinese painting, Chinese landscape painting reveals cultural background and philosophical connotation peculiar to China through description with Chinese ink painting, i.e. the traditional Confucian ideology and culture of "syncretism between heaven and man" and the ideological connotation of nature worship in Taoist school. Therefore, the author discusses origin and development status of Chinese landscape painting in this paper, states philosophical connotation of Chinese landscape painting according to thoughts of Chinese traditional culture, and points that Chinese landscape painting is deeply influenced by Confucian, Taoist and Buddhist thoughts and cultures, and that Chinese landscape painting gradually becomes a cultural and artistic type with Chinese characteristics.