Therefore the universe, the mountains and rivers in Chinese landscape paintings represent the eternal, as expressed in Zhuangzi's words: "Other than life and death, there is no end or beginning." Humans 'own bodies have become the life energy of the mountains and rivers.
中國山水畫裡的宇宙山川，因此是莊子「外死生、無終始」的恆定，人的本身已化做了山水的生命力。