With the tradition of landscapes, the cultivated became much more interested in capturing the changes of nature than in focusing on themselves. They developed complicated techniques to portray rocks, but they would use just a few strokes to depict people.
山水當道的傳統下，文人們對自然變換的描繪大大高於對自己的關注，為了皴擦一塊石頭，可以用盡心力，但在人像的表現上，卻只限於幾根線條。