自然是人类生存之本,亦是中国传统艺术之源,更是中国山水画之根。在各艺术门类中,山水画与自然的关系最为紧密。这里所说的自然,大体有三个层面的含义:一是作为人类生存环境的大自然;二是作为山水画审美境界的自然;三是作为画家创作状态的自然。在画论画品中,不同语境下的自然有着不同的含义。本文试图从山水画与自然的关系、自然在山水画中的地位、 Nature is the basis of human existence and the source of Chinese traditional art. It is also the root of Chinese landscape painting. In each art category, landscape painting and nature are the most closely related. The nature here refers to roughly three levels of meaning: one is the nature as the living environment of mankind; the other is the nature as the aesthetic realm of landscape painting; the other is the nature as the state of painter’s creation. In drawing paintings, nature has different meanings in different contexts. This paper tries to analyze the relationship between landscape painting and nature, the status of nature in landscape painting,