At the time of the Tang Era, landscape painting became the popular genre of Chinese art. The literati viewed landscape paintings as wordless poems, and poems as formless paintings,such metaphors reflect the close relationship between painting and poetry in Chinese art. Unlike the Christian paintings, the landscape paintings prefer to evoke the emotion rather than provide a objective description of reality. And landscape paintings are more secular less relative to religion. The specific nature of Chinese landscape painting is that human occupations seem mundane and incidental. So what display in front of your eyes are mountains, mist, rivers, waterfalls, flying birds, and a variety of trees in landscape paintings.