Mountains and Rivers of China · Hunan Volume

Author: Duan Baolin
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Chinese Landscape, Landscape of China. With a grand collection of twenty volumes, featuring exquisite illustrations and vivid literary style. It takes you into a — Historical China, Humanistic China; lets you — sit and enjoy the landscape, read and explore the world. The two key concepts of this series are "Landscape Stories" and "Landscape Sentiment." The rich and diverse "stories" behind the mountains and waters are the main characteristics of Chinese landscape. Due to the long-standing civilization and historical heritage, as well as the long-term influence of agricultural life, the "stories" behind the landscapes in China are particularly abundant, meaning that the cultural landscapes are exceptionally rich, and the accumulation of historical and cultural heritage is particularly profound. This series blends landscape aesthetics, anecdotes and legends, literary works about mountains and waters, and local customs into one, presenting everyone with a "comprehensive collection of landscape stories."
Landscape sentiment is a special cultural mindset formed by the ancestors of China in the long agricultural society. The publication of this series in its current form is the result of the joint efforts of many colleagues and friends. Especially Mr. Luo Zhewen, who dedicated himself to protecting cultural heritage by traversing the mountains and forests, and the renowned photographers Gu Di, Li Yuxiang, Wu Yinnan, and Li Xiangde, provided a wealth of photographs of cultural relics, historical sites, and landscape art, adding a rich classical poetic charm to the series.
As one volume of the "Landscape of China" illustrated series, this book provides a panoramic overview of the landscape attractions, historical sites, legends and anecdotes, and local customs of Hunan Province, accompanied by nearly 200 illustrations. With its profound and substantial cultural connotations and elegant, fluent narrative style, it distinguishes itself from the current popular tourism guides that focus on information and academic works that study history and culture. It allows readers to savor the essence of "traveling through reading."