Handmade Portraits in Taoist Ancient Books

It not only uses the traditional painting skills of China, but also tries to embody Taoist teachings. With the aim of "painting with meaning", the methods of "writing God with form" and "writing shape with god" are adopted. In his creation, he not only mobilized various artistic means such as "water" and "style", but also embodied various requirements of Taoism for painting and sculpture. In the 29th year of Kaiyuan in Tang Dynasty (74 1), he painted the image of Emperor Xuanyuan (who ascended the throne as an old gentleman), accompanied by five images of Gaozu, Taizong, Gaozong, Zhongzong and Zongrui. Painter Wu Daozi has five emperors, five senses, stars and so on. Among them, the statue of Emperor Xuanyuan painted in the Taiqing Palace in Lu Yi, Henan Province, is a silk book, that is, it is painted on a single silk book, not mounted, hung on a shelf when it is enshrined, and then engraved in the mysterious temple in Suzhou, which has been passed down from generation to generation.