Zong Bing (, style name Shaowen 少文, 375 – 443) was a Chinese artist and musician who wrote the earliest text on landscape painting. He wrote that “Landscapes have a material existence, and yet reach also in a spiritual domain.”

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* Leon Hurvitz 'Tsung Ping's Comments on Landscape Painting' ''Artibus Asiae,'' Vol. 32, No. 2/3 (1970), pp. 146–156 * Bush, S. (1983) Tsung Ping's Essay on Painting Landscape and "Landscape Buddhism" of Mount Lu. In S. Bush & C. Murick, C. (Ed), ''Theories of the arts in China'' (pp. 132–164). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 375 births 443 deaths Buddhist apologists Chinese landscape painters Jin dynasty (266–420) musicians Jin dynasty (266–420) painters Liu Song painters Liu Song musicians 5th-century Chinese painters 5th-century Chinese musicians {{China-artist-stub