The four gracious plants mean the picture of a maehwa blossom, an orchid, a chrysanthemum, and a bamboo with India ink. This has been given a name that a maehwa blossom is the flower that tells us the spring for the first time after the cold following a wind, an orchid perfumes the fragrance hills and valleys, a chrysanthemum comes into flower with cold frost in late autumn, and a bamboo never loses the green-spotted in a cold winter that man of letters and noble birth had enjoyed in the middle of Koryo dynasty, resembles the noble mindedness of virtuous man. The four gracious plants expanded and enhanced the man of letters and noble birth\'s life, and begun being drawing as the medium of their spirit expression. The man of letters and noble birth drawed, appreciated, cultivated the moral standard, purified the right character, and cared for as self-development and expression all th year round. The four gracious plants were respected as a character value of noble personality, so that it was attached importance to the objects\' original nature than the outward appearance. Therefore, the man of letters and noble birth gave their whole mind, just as feeling themselves writing a poem, to the four gracious plants\' spirit and intention, then regarded it as true drawing of mental state with way of handling a brush holding the all colors of India ink. Drawing the four gracious plants was not simply the reproduction of outward appearance. It chased the value of their feelings, sentiment, and meaning expression from nature principle and harmony. The picture of the four gracious plants is the painting in the literary artist\'s style that takes the forms of incarnate style of esthetic sense. The painting in the literary artist\'s style emphasized the importance of high level gratitude and mentality. However, it has not been settled down burying this spirit, and simply remaining the style. We should give life to our traditional pictures spirit with the four gracious plants esthetic appreciation, spiritual enlightening, and guidance of understanding for our growing generation.