Travel Map of Western Hills is the representative work of Fan Kuan in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is now in the Taiwan Province Provincial Museum. The Tourism Map of Western Hills depicts a typical northern scenery, and the word "Fan Kuan" is engraved among the leaves. On the map, the mountains are mountainous and vast. The composition of this painting is strange, and the oncoming mountain accounts for two-thirds of the whole picture. The first impression of this painting is majestic, tall and strong, which has a dignified and aggressive momentum. Fan Kuan's calligraphy and painting. The date of birth and death is unknown, and the name is Chiang Kai-shek, and the word is neutral. When the name is Chiang Kai-shek and the word is neutral, people call it "Fan Kuan" because of its gentle temperament. Fan Kuan has an ancient charm, living in seclusion. A good drinker, he often travels between Bianjing and Luoyang. Having lived in Zhong Nanshan and Huashan for a long time, he wrote down the true face of the mountain without complicated decoration and became a family. Fan Kuan is good at expressing the scenery of the four seasons and traveling, and the snow scene is the best. Representative works include Xishan Tourism Map, Snow Scene Cold Forest Map, Snow Mountain and Temple Map, Snow Mountain Architecture Map, Sitting Alone by the Stream Map and so on. Fan Kuan was one of the "Three Great Landscape Painters" in the early Northern Song Dynasty, and the other two were Li Cheng and Guan Tong. All three of them studied under Hao Jing and belonged to the Northern School. Fan Kuan's painting style is more prominent and vigorous. He also created the landscape painting Snow, which made outstanding achievements in the landscape painting of the Northern Song Dynasty. There is a famous saying in Fan Kuan's landscape paintings: "I have never learned from others what my predecessors have never learned;" I am a teacher of things, but I am not a teacher of the soul. " This sentence tells the aesthetic law of China's ancient landscape painting. Most of Fan Kuan's paintings are magnificent panoramic landscapes, and with heavy brush and ink, they create a magnificent, magnificent and magnificent landscape realm. Mi Fei once said in "History of Painting": "The top of the mountain is a dense forest, and it is old from now on; Water is a sudden stone, and it has become harder and harder since then. "Liu Daochun commented in the Review of Famous Paintings of the Holy Dynasty:" Li Cheng's pen is as nearsighted as a thousand miles; Fan Kuan's pen, from a distance, never leaves home. Are all so-called god-makers. "Appreciation: The travel map of Xishan is 206.3cm long and103.3cm wide, and it is in silk ink. The author inscribed the words "Written by Minister Fan Kuan" among the trees. The tourist map of the Western Hills in the National Palace Museum in Taipei depicts a bottomless giant peak, with waterfalls pouring down and boulders at the foot of the mountain abrupt. The composition is full and ethereal, and the rocks are well defined. Use raindrops to express the texture effect of rocks and get their shapes and textures. The picture is magnificent and magnificent, and it is Fan Kuan's masterpiece. " The Tourism Map of Western Hills depicts a typical northern scenery, and the word "Fan Kuan" is engraved among the leaves. On the map, the mountains are mountainous and vast. The composition of this painting is strange, and the oncoming mountain accounts for two-thirds of the whole picture. The first impression of this painting is majestic, tall and strong, which has a dignified and aggressive momentum. Mountains and dense forests, a white waterfall flows down like a silver line at the intersection of two peaks, adding a sense of transfer in a serious and quiet atmosphere. There are strange rocks lying on the hills nearby, where miscellaneous trees grow, pavilions are exposed at the top of the trees, streams run away, and the slopes of stone paths meander at the bottom of dense trees. On Yin Shan Road, a group of passengers came from right to left. Four mules and four horses were dragging heavy goods. This painting gives people a sense of dynamic music: the bells of cavalry gradually enter the picture, and there are gurgling streams in the mountain stream. There is stillness in movement, and there is movement in silence. Poetry slowly unfolds in motion and stillness, and people seem to hear the sound of cavalry passing through the painting. From the point of view of composition, this painting list should be unremarkable, but it has produced extraordinary power. One reason is that the shape is magnificent, and the other is that the brushwork is hearty. In this painting, the rock is straight. The author first sketched the steep and carved edges of the rocks with thick brush and heavy ink, and then repeatedly used the indomitable and heavy central raindrops (commonly known as sesame seeds) to shape the direction, back line and texture of the rocks. When the outline and the inner side are added with a pen, a little blank is left at the edge to show the concavity and convexity of the mountain shape and depict the character of northern rocks such as steel. Dense forests are scattered on the mountain. The ink color is thick, showing the majestic spirit of the peaks between Qin and Long. This painting is rich in layers, dignified and rich in ink, and extremely exquisite. The mountains are stacked, the vegetation is fluffy, the rocks are hard, and the mountains are vigorous and rich. Although positive, it has changed a lot. Donkey pedestrians, accurate and vivid dynamics. This painting profoundly describes the scenery in Guanshan area. The author pays attention to the bone technique, from which we can see the deep painting style of ink and wash. This painting has been praised by critics of all ages. Xu Beihong, a master of modern art, once spoke highly of this painting in Treasures in the Palace Museum: "Among all the treasures in China, the Palace Museum is unique. What attracted me most was Fan Zhongli's Travel Notes of the Western Hills, which was magnificent, solemn and noble, and was sincerely created by ten thousand people. This picture is a giant frame, and a hill that accounts for two-thirds of the whole area is abrupt, which makes people stunned! "

There are many stories in this painting, and there is no doubt that it is Fan Kuan's original. However, for more than 900 years, people have been regretting that they can't find the handwriting or seal of the Song people on it. It was not until the autumn of 1958 that a researcher named Li Lincan found the word "Fan Kuan" in the grass at the lower right of the picture frame, which cleared the fog.