Spiritual Patterns Of Confucianism And Taoism Of Poems For Landscape Paintings In Song Dynasty

The Song Dynasty saw a thriving development in poems for landscape paintings.Literati in Song Dynasty are inclined to be engaged in painting more pervasively thantheir peers in proceeding dynasties and, by the promotion of the court and thecommonalty, literati made it a fashion to appreciate paintings and inscribe a poem atthe same time.People in Song Dynasty left a abundant legacy of poems for landscape paintings andby which Literati tend to convey their gracious and subtle feelings as Fang-xun said inQing Dynasty. In the context of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism being coexistand interact literati in Song Dynasty are prone to complementing Confucianism andTaoism in virtue of landscape.As a discourse embracing poems, paintings and landscape, poems for landscapeembodies a harmonious link among Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism.This article focuses on the very text of poems for landscape painting in the context oftranscending the diverse realm of poetry and painting, then attempts to depict thespiritual patterns of Confucianism and Taoism by a means of integrating culturalpoetics perspective and empirical analysis in the background of the culture type inSong dynasty.