The traditional Chinese ink landscape painting "Shanshui", had the highest achievement with all varieties of techniques in the Song and Yuan dynasties. It decayed into symbolization from the Ming and Qing dynasties as lacking new basic technique and pictorial language.
In 21s, some artists, the "Shanshui" lifesavers, genetically develop "Shanshui": inventing new basic techniques including the texturing methods for mountain or stone, painting methods for tree, water, rendering methods for cloud, etc., to enrich the pictorial languages of "Shanshui", as well as create new styles.