Dong Yuan (934-c. 962) was born in Zhongling (present-day Jinxian County) in Jiangxi Province. He was active in the Southern Tang Kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Because Dong Yuan had once worked as deputy chief of Beiyuan, he was also referred to as ＂Dong Beiyuan.＂ Although he was best known for his landscape paintings, he was also skilled at figure painting, birds, and animals. Dong focused on depicting mountain scenes from the Jiangnan region. He invented and practiced the techniques of coarse brushstrokes and dotted accents. He was one of the group known as the Three Great Painters of the Northern Song Dynasty, alongside Li Cheng and Fan Kuan.