Contemporary Chinese Art
Ink landscape painting, known as shanshuihua or mountain-water painting, was first created during the Song dynasty, and had symbolic as well as aesthetic implications. The idea of mountain and water is symbolic of yang and yin. Landscape paintings may represent particular places as well as to make philosophical statements.
�Auspicious snow of Jade Mountain,� Chou Chen, Ink painting, 91 x 61 cm, Chinese Culture Center