Zong Bing (, style name Shaowen 少文, 375 – 443) was a

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ist and musician who wrote the earliest text on

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. He wrote that “Landscapes have a material existence, and yet reach also in a spiritual domain.”

References

* Leon Hurvitz 'Tsung Ping's Comments on Landscape Painting' ''Artibus Asiae,'' Vol. 32, No. 2/3 (1970), pp. 146–156 * Bush, S. (1983) Tsung Ping's Essay on Painting Landscape and "Landscape Buddhism" of Mount Lu. In S. Bush & C. Murick, C. (Ed), ''Theories of the arts in China'' (pp. 132–164). Princeton, NJ:

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. 375 births 443 deaths Buddhist apologists Chinese landscape painters Jin dynasty (266–420) musicians Jin dynasty (266–420) painters Liu Song dynasty people Northern and Southern dynasties painters Northern and Southern dynasties musicians 5th-century Chinese painters 5th-century musicians {{China-artist-stub