Guo Xi named three distances: high (gazing up from foot to peak), deep (peering from front to back of a range), and level (from nearby hills to distant water). Together they make landscape traversable.
Long blue-green scrolls excel here: a high peak anchors, valleys link depth, rivers open level distance. Wang Ximeng’s masterpiece paces the viewer through ascent, journey, and far view within one scroll.
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