The picture of the hairpin and the phoenix depicts the scene of aristocratic women enjoying flowers and visiting the garden at the turn of spring and summer, and the picture depicts the leisure life of the ladies. They play luxuriously in the yard, taking leisurely actions, picking flowers, shooting butterflies, teasing dogs, watching cranes, walking slowly, sitting around doing nothing, and the maids follow the fans. Its coloring skills, distinct layers, dizzy face and clothes decoration are all extremely ingenious. The lightness and softness of the tulle and the moist luster of the skin are vividly painted, which shows that the author has a high degree of artistic skills and generalization ability. The whole painting is divided into four parts, which describe the situation of women picking flowers, watching flowers, walking and teasing dogs respectively. The lines of the characters are concise, round and powerful, and the colors are rich. The author painted four concubines and two handmaids teasing dogs, holding fans, holding flowers and making butterflies to highlight the main characters in a growing way, which is a common expression in medieval figure painting. The dog, crane and magnolia in the painting show that the activities of the characters are in the erotic palace. The composition of the whole picture adopts the way of tiling and painting. The ladies before and after the volume are looking back and looking after their pets, which brings together the activities of the characters in the whole volume. Maid-in-waiting's gauze skirt and flower steamed stuffed bun were the costumes at that time. Big peonies and jasmine flowers are popular in the tall bun, which looks elegant and beautiful against the background of black hair. You Simiao is the main way to describe characters. His brushwork is light and gentle, even and peaceful, especially with the help of color, which successfully shows the texture of gauze and skin. The gauze on the artist's arm is dyed light, which is deeper than bare skin and lighter than gauze. It only reproduces smooth skin and transparent gauze, conveying a soft and quiet aesthetic feeling. Judging from a large number of pottery figurines unearthed in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the costumes of the ladies in the paintings truly reflected the female fashion culture at that time. Both paintings and figures show the same aesthetic orientation and mental outlook. Brief introduction of painter
Zhou Fang, whose date of birth and death is unknown, was a painter in the Tang Dynasty, whose name was Zhong Lang and whose name was Xuan Jing. He was born in Jingzhao (now Xi City, Shaanxi Province). Born in an official family, he was a satrap and Xuanzhou satrap. He is good at writing and painting portraits, especially portraits of ladies. He began to learn Zhang Xuan and changed to sketch. He wrote more about aristocratic women. His works were laid back, plump in appearance, gorgeous in clothes, simple in brushwork and soft in color, which attracted the attention of the court and literati at that time.
The earliest recorded activity time in Zhou Fang was Longshi (766 ~ 779) in Yuezhou, Dali, Tang Daizong (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), and the last recorded activity time was the mural of Zhangjing Temple in Dezong Town (785 ~ 804). Zhou Fang moved to the ruling and opposition in the name of good paintings, and the official reached Xuanzhou (now Xuancheng City, Anhui Province) with a long history. The Song Dynasty's "Xuanhe Painting Spectrum" contains: "Writing about women is the highest in ancient and modern times, and its reputation is widely spread, which is more common in the poems of celebrities."