Northern landscape style

The northern landscape style (Chinese: 北宗画; pinyin: běi zōng huà) was a manner of Chinese landscape painting centered on a loose group of artists who worked and lived in Northern China during the Five Dynasties period that occupied the time between the collapse of the Tang dynasty and the rise of the Song.

The style stands in opposition to the Southern School (南宗画; nán zōng huà) of Chinese painting.

His styles were propagated by his pupil Guan Tong, who in turn influenced Northern Song painters such as Li Cheng and Fan Kuan.

The tradition the two men created is the classical, imperially sanctioned, official canon of Song Landscape painting.

Li Cheng's combination of the northern and southern styles is as if it were a microcosm symbolic of the physical reunification of China under the Song dynasty.