Abstract:
The concepts “horizon” and “scenery” contain people’s observation of the world around and recognition of the remote world. There were massive poems, cipoems and landscape paintings in ancient China, which indicated that the concept “scenery” was already deeply rooted in Chinese culture as early as the Tang Dynasty. In Europe, however, people didn’t express it in their works of literature and art until Renaissance. Before then, the Europeans, who were deeply shrouded under Christian culture, viewed the world only from a vertical and single perspective. Since the 15th century, they began to pay frequent attention to the “horizon” and “scenery”, hence extending their vision of the world and changing their mode of thinking and shaping a set of new world outlooks.
