Six Hermits And Chinese Landscape Painting

The hermits are some individual people in ancient society of China. They have enormous influence in Chinese culture and Chinese traditional painting. Furthermore, they are affected Chinese landscape painting (thinking, topic, style, evaluation) is in relation to the hermits themselves or their thinking.In the contemporary community, it is impossible to far from the society just as a hermits, also, there are no people withdrawn. But the thinking of the hermits is still existing. It is impacting on the Chinese landscape painting now. In the beginning, Chinese landscape painting was used for the background of Chinese figure painting. then, it is a slowly process that Chinese landscape painting become to a independent painting subject. The hermits play a important part in the process. Researching the six dynasties hermits is indispensable to research the emergence of Chinese landscape painting. Originated from Chinese traditional culture, Chinese artistic and aesthetic thought form special artistic tradition on thoughts and soul. The nature of artistic expression has changed into inner spiritual feeling and comprehension. So, aesthetic concepts such as physique and spirit, mood and qiyun have become the ideal sense of artistic creation. While Mencius' words "I am good at forstering the great spirit" has made Chinese personality begin to wake and made the artists link their spiritual qualities with their work styles.