Zong Bing ( Chinese: 宗炳; Wade–Giles: Tsung1 Ping3, style name Shaowen 少文, 375 – 443 [1]) was a Chinese artist and musician who wrote the earliest text on landscape painting. He wrote that “Landscapes have a material existence, and yet reach also in a spiritual domain.”
Zong Bing ( Chinese: 宗炳; Wade–Giles: Tsung1 Ping3, style name Shaowen 少文, 375 – 443 [1]) was a Chinese artist and musician who wrote the earliest text on landscape painting. He wrote that “Landscapes have a material existence, and yet reach also in a spiritual domain.”