The dominant genre of painting was landscape, and Man became a tiny figure playing the lute off in the mountains or listening to the wind in the pines.
點景人物在高山幽壑之間，或獨坐聽松，或相對鼓琴，比起山水之勝，真真微不足道。露乳坦腹為那般？細翻美術史，畫頁上也並非全無人體官能的描述。宋人的「市擔嬰戲」圖中，就赫然有女露胸！