《画山水序》是中国历史上最早关于山水画的专论,对中国绘画史的影响是非常重大的。宗炳所处的时期是“中国政治上最混乱、社会上最苦痛的时代,然而却是精神史上极自由、极解放,最富于智慧、最浓于热情的时代。因此也就是最富有艺术精神的一个时代。”由于政治的混乱,这时期的人往往寄情于自然山水,并且进行深刻的哲学思考。因此,魏晋六朝时期的美学思维主要表现在:山水美的发现及其对时人艺术心灵的焕发与培养、超凡脱俗的哲学的美。 “Painting landscapes” is the earliest monograph on landscape painting in Chinese history, the impact on the history of Chinese painting is very significant. Zong Bing’s period was “the most chaotic political time in China and the most painful time in society. However, it was an era of extremely free, highly liberated, most intellectual, and most passionate spiritual history, and therefore the richest An era of artistic spirit. ”" Due to political turmoil, people of this period often love natural landscapes and conduct deep philosophical thinking. Therefore, the aesthetics thinking in Wei, Jin and Liu dynasties mainly manifested in: the discovery of landscape beauty and its beauty of the philosophical beauty of extraordinary artistry.