New Rhyme of Chinese Modernization on the Silk Road: The Presentation of the Concept of Harmony between Human and Nature in Traditional Landscape Painting

Abstract

This study examines how traditional Chinese landscape painting visually structures the concept of harmony between humanity and nature and discusses its relevance to Silk Road cultural exchange and contemporary Chinese modernization. It constructs an interpretive framework linking philosophical context with spatial organization, brushwork relations, and imagery structures. Based on this framework, the paper analyzes how the visual system of landscape painting operates historically and how it continues to function as a cultural resource within cross-cultural circulation. The study interprets spatial order, brush-and-ink rhythm, and imagery composition as structured visual carriers of human-nature relations rather than as simple reproductions of scenery. It further discusses Silk Road resonance through historically documented contacts between Chinese pictorial space concepts and the visual traditions of Central and Western Asia, rather than through purely formal analogy. The findings show that traditional landscape painting provides a stable visual logic for ecological thought, cultural continuity, and contemporary design philosophy, offering interpretive reference for Chinese modernization and cross-cultural visual communication.