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Why Chinese landscape paintings are easy to appreciate even if you鈥檙e not an expert
South China Morning Post 01 Sep, 2025Everyone can appreciate the harmonious forms of Chinese landscape art and glimpse the universal values that connect across cultures and time.
"It is the time for cherries and bamboo shoots in Jiangnan/the moist greens are refreshing/As the rain falls, peach blossoms arrive with the rising water/the crops sprout as spring hurries into the season."
If you are a friend of a powerful art family and own a painting by its patriarch, what would you do? The answer from Xie Boli, a collector living in 14th-century China, produced one of the most prominent and talked-about works in Chinese art history.