November in Jiangsu Photo Print

November in Jiangsu is a little brush painting of a Chinese river scenery in traditional Chinese free style technique (shan shui) with ink on rice paper. Jiangsu province is situated in the east of China on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Natural landscape and cultural heritage blend with each other. There are ancient water towns, famous temples, classical gardens, scenic lakes and mountains. Jiangsu has offered me a different and memorable travel experience! Chinese landscape painting, in general, is the famous paintings art that take landscapes as themes, treats the natural mountains and rivers as major description objects. Chinese mountain and water painting (in Chinese called shan shui, shan = mountain, shui=water) forms its own artistic tradition and system. Through mountain and water paintings, people can taste both artistic conception and the artistic style of Chinese paintings well. For Chinese landscape painting it is unable to do without "water". "Water" is the soul of Chinese paintings. The lifelike depiction of various forms of water grace the whole painting when you appreciate one Chinas mountain and water painting. According to Fengshui the faraway mountains is symbolic of long stading and well established. The morning sun implies lucky strike, also means that the hard times already past and the good days has come. Trees on the left side painted for bringing wealth, trees on the right side painted for keeping off misfortune.