Hao Jing was the most influential landscape painter in Hou Liang during the Five Dynasties in China. He was proficient in classics and history and was good at writing. Mengzhou (now Jiyuan, Henan) people. Probably lived in 870-940 AD. Hao Jing is knowledgeable and knowledgeable, rich in literature and art, capable of writing and poetry.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there was chaos in the Central Plains. Hao Jing didn't come out to be an official, but lived in seclusion in a place called Honggu in Taihang Mountain, and cultivated several acres of mountain fields to make a living. He sketched in the mountains every day and drew tens of thousands of sketches. After years of research and tempering, Hao Jing became a master of landscape painting.

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Hao Jing was a famous landscape painter and theorist in the late Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties. He not only created the northern landscape painting with equal emphasis on pen and ink, but also was respected as the ancestor of the northern landscape painting school by later generations. Hao Jing attaches great importance to the thinking and application of "truth" in his landscape painting creation.

He put forward such theoretical viewpoints as "six essentials", "concrete truth", "four natures" and "two diseases", which are classic works in ancient landscape painting theory and have higher theoretical value than the earlier "six laws theory" put forward by Sheikh of Nanqi.

Through the understanding of the broad and vigorous temperament of Taihang Mountain, Hao Jing created many mountains and rivers like Crazy Road Map, thus opening up panoramic composition and portrait techniques, realizing the unity of theory and creative practice, and the unity of "truth" advocated by calligraphy. The realistic painting style initiated by Hao Jing has played an important leading role in the formation and development of the northern landscape painting school.

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