Landscape painting is a classic of Chinese traditional culture. Taoism had a profound influence on the origin and theory of Chinese landscape painting. The Taoist spirit was an important thread running through it

from Zong Bing’s Taoist Reflection to Guo Xi’s Linquan Chronicles to Shi Tao’s Return to Nature. The Confucian optimism had become the core of Confucian criticism. Confucianism has a regulatory effect on the moral value and ideological content of Chinese painting. It promoted the development of Chinese painting and thus played an active political and ethical role in society. Taoism was the spiritual source of creation and criticism in Chinese Landscape Painting. While enriching the theory of landscape painting

Taoism had made important contributions to the independent development of Chinese landscape painting.