What kind of landscape painting is Taoyuan Wonderland?

Peach Blossom Garden is a paper-based heavy-color painting created by China Ming Dynasty painter Chou Ying. Now it is collected in Boston Museum of Art, USA.

The theme of Peach Blossom Garden is taken from Peach Blossom Garden written by Tao Yuanming, a hermit in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Peach Blossom Garden depicts people's ideal seclusion resort, which has also become the subject matter that later painters are keen to describe. Chou Ying's Peach Blossom Garden depicts the literati's ideal seclusion. This painting shows a large green landscape with strong colors.

"Taoyuan Wonderland" pursues the ideal paradise of literati and expresses the theme of literati's leisure life. The whole landscape revolves around figures, and figures are the center of the whole picture in his paintings, which fully embodies Chou Ying's profound artistic skill in figure painting and landscape painting.

The picture is rich in decorative interest, which reminds people of the story of Peach Blossom Garden and Wonderland. "Peach Blossom Garden" is characterized by undulating peaks in the distance, deep and high, and clouds in the mountains. Deep in the distant mountains, the pavilions of temples and terraces are hidden in the clouds from time to time, and the scenery is elegant.

In artistic expression, the painter outlines seiko. Whether it is a grass, a tree, branches and leaves, or the dynamics and expressions of characters are described in detail. The whole painting is colored in green, and the color is beautiful and elegant. It shows Chou Ying's profound personality and landscape expression ability.

This painting truly shows the unreachable scene of Xanadu to the world, giving people a wonderful feeling of being there. It is really a national treasure.

From the perspective of painting, this painting is a masterpiece of the perfect combination of big green landscape painting and figure painting. The whole picture takes the whereabouts of Wuling fishermen as the main line and runs through the whole article. There are more than 40 characters in the picture, with different shapes and rich expressions.

Among them are fishermen rowing boats, woodcutters chopping wood, farmers carrying hoes, and villagers chatting. Everyone is happy to do their own thing and enjoy it, which shows the infinite fun of rural life. The landscape and characters in the painting are perfectly combined to create a beautiful and leisurely fairyland on earth.