What are the reasons for the difference between Feng Shui paintings in the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty?

The main genres of China's paintings are ink painting, mural painting and printmaking. Among them, ink painting is the most representative painting of China. Ink painting germinated in the pre-Qin period, formed in the Jin and Tang Dynasties, and prevailed in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties and the 2th century. It uses a brush as a painting tool, paper or silk as a painting ground, ink and water as materials, and some of them are lightly colored. Heavy color painting is usually also classified as ink painting. Silk, as the place of early ink painting, was unearthed in the Liangzhu Cultural Site in Qianshan, Xing Wu, Zhejiang, around 276 BC. According to bronze inscriptions such as Yi Hou Kui, there was a picture room in the royal palace in the early Zhou Dynasty, which was used to display maps, portraits of emperors and sages and deeds. The earliest surviving silk paintings, "Dragon and Phoenix Figures" and "Royal Dragon Map", were created in the third century BC, and their expression techniques were quite skillful, just like the later ink paintings.

Traditional ink painting is divided into painting subjects such as figures, landscapes, flowers, fruits and feathers, animals, insects and fish, and boundary paintings. Zhang Yanyuan's Records of Famous Paintings in the Past Dynasties in the Tang Dynasty is divided into six categories: figures, houses, landscapes, pommel horses, ghosts and gods, flowers and birds, etc. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Xuanhe Huapu was divided into ten categories, namely, figures, palaces, Fan people, arowana, landscapes, animals, flowers and birds, mozhu and vegetables. The Yuan Dynasty was divided into thirteen families, and the thirteen families recorded in Tao Zongyi's "Record of Dropping Farming" were: Buddha and Bodhisattva, Jade Emperor's Daoxiang, King Kong's God and Spirit, Lohan's Holy Monk, Fengyun Dragon and Tiger, Ancient People, Whole Mountain Forest, Flowers and Bamboo Feathers, Wild Mules and Animals, Human Use, Boundary Painting Loutai, Everything Living Alone, Farming and Weaving, Carving Green and Embedding Green. Among the literature records and handed down works, figure painting, landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting have made outstanding achievements.

In terms of painting style, meticulous painting is called meticulous painting; Simple and casual brushwork is called freehand brushwork; A large amount of brushwork and ink dripping is called splash painting; Pure line drawing or slightly inked is called line drawing; Rich and colorful, full-scale rendering is called heavy color.

After the Song Dynasty, ink painting emphasized the classification of the author and interest, and the relatively stable and exquisite paintings of Hanlin Painting Academy and court professional painters were called "Academy Painting"; The paintings of non-professional literati and scholar-officials pay attention to knowledge and talent, flaunt the temperament and wild style of literati, and are called "literati paintings" or "scholar-officials paintings". Literati painting integrates poetry, calligraphy, painting and printing, and is closely related to the art of calligraphy. Literati painting pays more attention to ink and wash than color, pays more attention to interest and charm than image, emphasizes the one-off of calligraphy, and pursues the meaning of poetry and imagery in painting. Points and lines in strokes are the main modeling factors of literati paintings, and sometimes they are even objects that are independently appreciated. The formulation of literati painting originated from Su Shi in the Northern Song Dynasty and became in Dong Qichang in the Ming Dynasty. It was advertised by literati who recorded the history of painting and became the highest model of painting in China. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, whenever we talk about the purpose, taste and realm of China's paintings, it is basically based on literati paintings.