一唐代画论家张彦远在《历代名画记》中论绘画功能时云:“夫画者,成教化,助人伦,穷神变,测幽微,与六籍同功,四时并运,发于天然,非由述作。”大体概定了中国绘画在唐之前所具有的社会功能及其独特的美学特征。中国山水画的产生,正是脱胎于“图画布道”的具有社会功能的人物画,也就是说中国古代人物画的配景即山水画的滥觞。中国山水绘画与画史上通称的“道释画”分道扬镳而发端于隋、唐成熟于宋。唐代是中国长期封建社会中的辉煌时代, A Tang Dynasty painter Zhang Yan far in the “history of famous paintings” in the painting on the cloud: “Fu painter, into a Christian, help the benevolence, poor God change, measured quiet, Made in natural, non-existent. ”The general outline of the social function of Chinese painting before the Tang Dynasty and its unique aesthetic characteristics. The emergence of Chinese landscape painting is the portrayal of social functions drawn from the “canvas of canvas”, that is to say, the landscape of ancient Chinese portraits, that is, the origin of landscape painting. Chinese landscape painting and painting history commonly known as “Daoist painting ” parting ways and originated in Sui, Tang mature in Song. The Tang Dynasty was a glorious era in China’s long-term feudal society.