Ji Wu School Diagram Of The Tour

This thesis is concerned with the travel landscapes of Wu School in theMing dynasty and considers the connection between scholars of Central Wudistrict, the change of social custom and the development of the travelliterature to discuss the contemporary reasons that artists of Wu Schoolpaint the travel landscapes, their audiences and their impacts on thesociety. Via exploring the painting procedure and forms of specific travelworks, we further reveal the essential effects of the travel landscapeson the contemporary social networks of scholars and their capabilitiesto meet various demands of the society.Chapter1starts with the development and venation of travel landscapesof Wu School. We also focus on the forms, visages and changes of theirpainting techniques. Chapter2includes two parts,“a tradition and aphenomenon” and “painting for shaping,writing for recording”. In thischapter we comprehensively discuss the combinations of travel landscapesand literatures of Wu School in Chapter. In Chapter3, we look into theinfluences of travel customs in Ming dynasty on the creation of travellandscapes of Wu School, which include the rise of tour fashion, whichhas obvious influence on the daily life of literati and theinterrelationships of travel landscapes and sights landscapes, as wellas their functions. In Chapter4, we mainly discuss the frequentapplications of travel landscapes in the social networking.Parts oftravel landscapes are recordings for travel experience with friends,while sometimes they also employed to make record for other people,serving as guidance. And the affluence of Wu’s travel landscapes are alsoanalyzed in this chapter.The creation of travel landscapes reaches the peak during the WuSchool’s age. That is not only due to the subjective choices made by theartists, but to the influences of the social politics, economicdevelopment, social culture and customs, as well as other reasons likethe formation of social networks of scholars in the Central Wu district.