Shan Shui China (Hunan Volume)

Author: Duan Baolin, Jiang Rong
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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, Cultural China; allows you to – observe landscapes from a distance, read and explore the world. This series of books has two key concepts: "Landscape Stories" and "Landscape Sentiment." The rich and diverse "stories" behind every mountain and river are the main characteristics of Chinese landscapes. Due to the long-standing civilization and historical heritage, as well as the long-term agricultural life, the "stories" behind China's landscapes are particularly abundant, meaning that the cultural landscapes are exceptionally rich, and the accumulation of historical culture is deeply profound. This series blends landscape aesthetics, anecdotes and legends, literary works on mountains and rivers, and local customs into one, presenting everyone with a "comprehensive collection of landscape stories."
Landscape sentiment is a unique cultural mindset formed by the ancestors of China in their long agricultural society. The publication of this series in its current form is the result of the collective efforts of many colleagues and friends. Especially, Mr. Luo Zhewen, who traveled across the mountains and forests to protect cultural heritage, 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 Hunan Province's scenic spots, historical sites, legends, and local customs, accompanied by nearly 200 illustrations. With its profound and substantial cultural connotations and elegant, fluent narrative style, it distinguishes itself from the currently 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."