Shan Shui Mountain Water is the term we generally associate with the school of Chinese landscape art that many art historians around the world believe to be China's most important contribution to the art of painting. Rooted in the philosophy of Daoism, the Shan Shui art movement - which first gained prominence during the waning years of the Tang dynasty (618-907) - actualizes its central precept that humans are but one of myriad manifestations of...