ABSTRACT
As a kind of independent system art style, the literati painting was introduced in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, a group of literati began to treat the form and spirit and the form and meanings in a different way. Su Shi explicitly put forward the concept of “literati painting”. He fully illuminated the theory of literati painting, which played a decisive role in the formation of the literati painting system. He strongly encouraged the combination of poetry and paintings and advocated the concept of “one body of the poetry and the painting”, which became one of the basic characteristics of the literati paintings.
