Living in the Mountains, Having Nothing to Do, Just Reading

Introduction to "Mountain Living with Nothing to Do, Just Reading" This book takes Shen Zhousheng, the master of the Wumen School of Painting in the Ming Dynasty, as the axis, and unfolds the panoramic view of Jiangnan culture from 1440 to 1550. It is a million-word epic that integrates art history, social history and literati style. From the scholarly young man in Xiangcheng who built the Luxi Mountain and became an official in three words, to continuing the Song and Yuan Dynasty cultural context with pen and ink, creating "Lushan High Picture" and "Dongzhuang Picture Album" handed down to the world; from the collection of Tang Yin and Wen Zhengming's inheritance of painting, In his later years, the Reform Movement opened up a "coarse" state. Shen Zhou used mountain dwellings as his monastery and calligraphy and painting as his spiritual imprint, which connected the elegant gatherings, connoisseurship, market fireworks and ideological changes in the mid-Ming Dynasty. The whole book uses one person to see a generation. In the pen and ink painting, the literati's reclusive spirit and perseverance are fully described, and the century-old splendor of the Jiangnan cultural context is reproduced.