During the Song dynasty most likely landscapes would be painted to show things with relative permanency compared to the changes in society and also to show the natural hierarchy as a metaphor for a successfully regulated state.
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In the old days, when musicians got together to play, they used whatever instruments were around. If there were three lute players, a harp, and two flutes, then that's what they used. By the 1500s, the time known as the Renaissance, the word "consort" was used to mean a group of instrumentalists, and sometimes singers too, making music together or "in concert".
