Abstract：In the Chinese art system, the Chinese literati’s landscape painting is the most cultural painting group with the highest nation quality, whose main creators are those literati who were frustrated or painters with certain cultural literacy, spirit and taste. In the long-term development of the Chinese literati’s landscape painting, the literati painters have integrated their specialties of writing and poetry into their paintings, which endows the literati’s landscape painting with unique aesthetic sentiment and art form, generating a painting language thmough the art of Chinese brush and ink as well as a stage of infinite image like poetry. Along with the use of landscape painting as personal lyric invention by literati, landscape painting is not only deepened in cultural deposits but also establishes an Arcadian aesthetic ideal as a result.

Keyword：literati; landscape painting; Chinese brush and ink; poetry; aesthetic sentiment;