Title: Ruins and Flowers: Arts of Mountains and Rivers

Author：Zhang Rongdong  Zhang Yi

Publishing House: Shandong Pictorial Publishing House

Publishing Date: 2016.05

Price: 68.00

ISBN: 978-7-5474-1808-6

Pages: 704

Size:thirty-two mo

Content in Briefs:

   Based on the main line ancient Jishui river basin, this book lists the landscape meanings in the core zone of the Chinese civilization and researches the relationship between the human being and the mountains and waters through firstly describing the prototype of the creation myths Mountain Wangwu and Taihang Mountains, then describing the source of the Chinese Chan Buddhism Dharma Cave in the Mountain Song, next describing the mother land of the Huaxia Wenshi Tribe Mountain Tai, and Mountain Lu and mountain peaks of the Mountain Meng and finally describing fairy mountains on the sea. In addition, this book also make the deep explanations separately from the perspectives of the prototype myth, the Taoists tradition shown in the Chinese traditional landscape painting, change of the Chan Buddhism, traditional scholars’ yarning for their hometowns and homelands and the Penglai fairy mountain constructed by imagination. And what is more, the independent excavation and modeling of the landscape aesthetics also makes this book have the new innovative significance for the discipline construction.