Mountains and rivers conform to Dao through their natural shapes, echo the heaven through their appearances, and reveal the mysteries of nature for eternity. This is a unique Chinese worldview through art. In this worldview, the fundamental relationship linked by mountains and rivers is not between subject and object but between human and nature.
As an important component of the Chinese civilization's DNA, mountains and rivers embody the grand world through the passage of time. The grand world encompasses everything, while the passage of time reflects vicissitudes.
The 7th Hangzhou Chinese Painting Biennale, themed "Return to the Five Great Mountains", welcomes artists from across China to take the Three Sacred Mountains and Five Great Mountains as their spiritual home, to immerse themselves in the magnificent mountains and rivers of China, to learn from nature and understand the principles of the universe, and to fully contemplate the ruthless laws of landscape.
