From Fan Kuan, Guo Xi and Li Tang to Huang Gongwang, they were all celebrating nature, not conquest, power or rank. Landscape paintings were actually subverting these things.
范寬、郭熙、李唐到黃公望，都在歌頌自然，而不是彰揚征服、權力、名位，山水畫恰恰在顛覆這些東西。