# China's ten greatest paintings and other famous classics

The so-called "ten greatest Chinese paintings handed down through history", plus a few other masterpieces often mentioned, from the Nymph of the Luo River to Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.

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- Dec 15, 2024 · the_weeb
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## Top 14

1. **Along the River During the Qingming Festival — Zhang Zeduan** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Northern Song. The bustle of Bianjing at Qingming; a treasure of the Palace Museum.
2. **Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains — Huang Gongwang** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yuan, 1347-1350. The scroll was later burned into two pieces.
3. **A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains — Wang Ximeng** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Northern Song. A blue-green landscape scroll painted in six months by an 18-year-old.
4. **Nymph of the Luo River — Gu Kaizhi (Song copy)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Eastern Jin original, based on Cao Zhi's rhapsody.
5. **The Night Revels of Han Xizai — Gu Hongzhong** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Southern Tang. A night banquet shown in five scenes.
6. **Emperor Taizong Receiving the Tibetan Envoy — Yan Liben** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tang. Emperor Taizong receives the Tibetan envoy.
7. **Five Oxen — Han Huang** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Tang. Five oxen, each in a different pose.
8. **Court Ladies of the Tang Palace** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A group of famous Tang works on the life of court women.
9. **Spring Morning in the Han Palace — Qiu Ying** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ming. A long scroll of palace women on a spring morning.
10. **One Hundred Horses — Giuseppe Castiglione** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Qing. The Italian Jesuit painter blends Chinese and Western styles to paint a hundred horses.
11. **Travellers among Mountains and Streams — Fan Kuan** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Northern Song. Tiny travellers beneath a towering peak; a treasure of the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
12. **Early Spring — Guo Xi** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Northern Song, 1072. A landscape as winter turns to spring.
13. **Spring Outing — Zhan Ziqian** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sui dynasty. Considered one of the oldest surviving landscape scrolls.
14. **Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies — Gu Kaizhi (copy)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Eastern Jin original; now in the British Museum.

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