For Liu Jiutong, landscape has always been the central subject of his artistic practice. Mountains and rivers are not merely forms found in nature, but living presences imbued with spirit, each possessing its own distinct rhythm, gesture, and expression. To encounter them is to experience a profound sense of openness and release, where the grandeur of the natural world becomes an expression of the universe's quiet vitality.

“Here unfolds wonders unseen throughout the ages;

 These primordial mountains and rivers remain, a world for those who endure.

 Having faced all that life could not fulfill,

 One returns every regret to heaven and earth, and thus becomes whole.”

—Kang Youwei, Republican Era