Yangze River with Waterfall Postcard

Yangze River with water fall is a brush painting in traditional Chinese free style technique (shan shui) with ink on rice paper. Chinese landscape painting, in general, is the famous paintings art that take landscapes as themes, treats the natural mountains and rivers as major description objects. Chinese mountain and water painting (in Chinese called shan shui, shan = mountain, shui=water) forms its own artistic tradition and system. Through mountain and water paintings, people can taste both artistic conception and the artistic style of Chinese paintings well. For Chinese landscape painting it is unable to do without "water". "Water" is the soul of Chinese paintings. The lifelike depiction of various forms of water grace the whole painting when you appreciate one Chinas mountain and water painting. According to Fengshui the faraway mountains is symbolic of long stading and well established. The morning sun implies lucky strike, also means that the hard times already past and the good days has come. Trees on the left side painted for bringing wealth, trees on the right side painted for keeping off misfortune. If there is a pathlet on the left side of waterfall, it will lead the wealth to your home. In Chinese culture, water symbolises wealth, and the waterfall represents profits pouring in from all sides. Therefore, Chinese waterfall painting is a well-received theme for Chinese painting. In composition of some waterfall paintings, there is a lake or plunge pool next to the fall. It has a very auspicious name called "treasure bowl", which can make wealth increase at an alarming rate according to legend.