You never know 【小题1】 romantic and talented Chinese people can be. The only 【小题2】 (survive) painting by the Northern Song Dynasty’s (960-1127) young genius artist Wang Ximeng, A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains, is probably the 【小题3】 (fine) example of Chinese blue-green landscape paintings. With bright mineral pigments, the painter paints a vast country landscape, an ideal world of perfect order and harmony that people dream of. Now, nearly 1,000 years later, Chinese musicians are doing 【小题4】 same thing as Wang, but this time through the art of music.

The 【小题5】 (music) interpretation (演绎) of the masterpiece A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains first appeared in Shanghai as the closing performance of the Music in the Summer Air concert 【小题6】 (give) by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra on Sunday. Following the concert, the performance began on Wednesday 【小题7】 Xi’an, Shaanxi Province.

“Just as Chinese painting aesthetics stress the relationship between artistic conception and the viewer’s mentality, the music 【小题8】 (create) can help people understand the landscape and the heaven and sky in 【小题9】 (we) hearts as well as the feelings toward nature and humanity in the form of music,” the piece’s composer Zhao Lin 【小题10】 (tell) the Global Times on Tuesday.

This symphony orchestra work showed the world of the splendid scroll painting.