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Shan shui
Art genre to draw landscapes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about a style of Chinese painting. For Chinese landscape poetry, see Shanshui poetry.
Shan shui (Chinese: 山水; pinyin: shān shuǐ; lit. 'mountain-water'; pronounced [ʂán ʂwèɪ]) refers to a style of traditional Chinese painting that involves or depicts scenery or natural landscapes, using a brush and ink rather than more conventional paints. Mountains, rivers and waterfalls are common subjects of shan shui paintings.
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