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What does the painter of Travelers among Mountains and Streams convey by combining compositional elements like trees, pack animals, and people dwarfed by the vast reaches of towering, floating mountains?

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Neo-Confucian concepts of qi and li.

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The painter conveys concepts strongly related to neo-Confucianism, focused mainly on the Qi and Li philosophies.

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The painter expresses, through painting, the thought that the human being is dependent on nature and the energy that permeates the universe as a whole. For this reason, he decided to represent human beings in diminished ways in relation to the size of the representation of nature and the natural elements of the landscape. With this he shows how small and fragile the human being is in relation to the forces that surround him.

These are neoconfunctionalist thoughts, mainly related to the Li philosophy (which defends the balance between nature and matter) and the Qi philosophy (which presents the concept of psychophysical energy).