The Five Dynasties and Two Song Dynasties period was an important stage in the development of Chinese landscape painting, and its evolution process contained rich artistic connotations and cultural values. This article explores in depth the stylistic characteristics, representative painters, and their works of landscape painting in different stages of this period. It analyzes the political, economic, cultural, and other factors that contributed to the evolution of landscape painting styles, aiming to reveal the inherent laws of the evolution of landscape painting in the Five Dynasties and Two Song Dynasties and its profound significance in the history of Chinese painting. This article takes the morphological analysis of landscape painting as the starting point, combined with the changes in social structure and the evolution of philosophical trends, to systematically examine the transformation trajectory of landscape painting from the Five Dynasties to the Southern Song Dynasty in terms of composition paradigm, brush and ink language, and spatial consciousness. Research has found that the evolution of Chinese landscape painting from the 10th to the 13th century presented an aesthetic shift from the "realm of heaven and earth" to the "realm of life". This shift was influenced not only by the rise of the literati class and the reshaping of the geographical space of Jiangnan, but also by the deep intertextuality of the ideological history process of the transformation of the Song Dynasty's Neo Confucianism's "investigating things to gain knowledge" thinking mode into centripetal theory.

Bo Shen. The Evolution of Landscape Painting during the Five Dynasties and Two Song Dynasties. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2025) Vol. 8, Issue 1: 127-132. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2025.080120.

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