From the presentation of the green landscape in A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains, we can see the pursuit of longevity by the royal family in the Song Dynasty. The concept of health preservation and the way of cultivating immortals advocated by Taoism meet the needs of the royal family. In the green landscape, the actual landscape is treated with colors that can't be seen in reality, such as azurite and stone green. To a certain extent, this shows the overseas fairy mountain with the secret of longevity in people's imagination.

The ideological realm of "knowing how to swim and how to live" is the creation of human settlement landscape environment, and the embodiment of the harmonious relationship between man and things, man's living space and man and nature in landscape painting. People can "swim" happily only when they can walk in the environment, see in the environment and hope in the environment. The so-called "residence" refers to people's long-term living experience in the regional environment, so that "everything and' I' are in harmony" and a strong inner feeling of "taking advantage of things" is achieved. China's landscape paintings embody the idea of living and traveling, and the ideal living environment.

Skills and technology

Although thousands of years have passed, some colors have fallen off, but its painting method is still clear and recognizable, highlighting the decorative effect of mineral stones with rich colors.

The drawing method of rocks is to outline the outline with thick and thin lines first, and then add enamel with soft lines of different lengths. The top of the mountain is like lotus leaf enamel, and the lines are not rigid or stiff. Then use light ink to add ochre or flower blue to render the stone, mostly in the front and back stones, and then cover it with ochre, and the top of the stone is juice green. The turquoise of rocks is often inconsistent, set off each other, and the color is thick and easy to peel off.

At the junction of water and sky, ochre is dyed, and the picture is integrated. The mountains in the distance are mainly ochre, and green and other colors are not used to express the distance of space. Willow leaves are painted with stone green, and the sky is mixed with ochre ink, which shows the change of sky space perspective. All the water colors are dyed into juice green, and the colors of minerals and plants are used together, which brings the expressive force of Chinese painting colors to the extreme.