This document discusses Taoist beliefs and values that are reflected in traditional Chinese landscape paintings. Some key Taoist concepts shown in paintings include yin and yang, represented by mountains (yang) and water (yin); pu and wu wei, seen in the simple life of fishermen; and the goal of finding immortality by living in harmony with nature. Landscape paintings aim to depict these abstract Taoist ideas pictorially by featuring natural elements like mountains, water, and humans within the larger context of the universe.