Ancient Chinese bridges have a long history and have survived the changes of the capital city and the long years of time, but not many of them remain. In the information age, people pay less attention to traditional culture. Through this article, we hope that people will understand more about the relationship between bridges and landscape painting, and therefore understand and love the traditional ink art more. In addition to composition, brushwork, and modeling, we can also look deeper into the environment of creation, the context of creation, and interactive behaviors to explore the mood of the landscape painting, understand the subjective emotions that the painter injected into the painting, and feel what can be seen, traveled, practiced, and lived in the landscape painting.
This paper examines the use of bridges in landscape paintings during the Song Dynasty, and is divided into six chapters. The first chapter is an introduction divided into two parts: the background of the topic and the significance of the topic. Chapter 2 begins with a discussion of primitive bridges, exploring the origin of bridges and briefly analyzing the types of bridges, followed by a discussion of the types of bridges found in landscape paintings. The third chapter analyzes the characteristics of landscape painting in the Northern and Southern Song dynasties by analyzing the inheritance and innovation between representative painters and their styles, and summarizes the reasons for the changes. Chapter 4 analyzes the types and specific expressions of bridges in landscape painting by combining bridges as individuals with landscape painting as a whole; distinguishes the materials of bridges into wood and stone, and analyzes their specific use of brush and ink according to different paintings; and explores the use and layout of bridges in landscape painting through panoramic landscapes and small landscapes. Chapter 5 combines the above-mentioned chapters to explore the relationship between the author and the bridge, and to analyze how the bridge serves as a medium of communication between the author and the reader, and finally Chapter 6 provides a brief summary of the entire text.