If we say that Northern Song painters were skilled in representing great mountains and rivers, Southern Song artists were especially adept at creating small--scale landscape paintings of simple composition, depicting some little detail from the great canvas of nature, which are best suited to the format of album pages.
如果說北宋善寫名山大川，那麼南宋的畫家則特別長於簡逸的小景畫，從大自然割取一角半邊來經營，最宜以冊頁的形式表現。