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1. During the Warring States Period, there was a kind of calligraphy with silk as the writing material-silk book, which was a white silk fabric. In the Han dynasty, silks were collectively referred to as silks or silks, so silk books were also called silk books.
2. The earliest existing silk painting in China was found in the Chu Tomb in Changsha in 1930s.
In recent years, a large number of bamboo slips have been unearthed.
4. For example, Wuli Monument in Changsha, Hunan 195 1, Yangtianhu Tomb in Changsha 1954, Yangjiawan Tomb in Changsha 1954, Xinyang Tomb in Henan 1957 and Yunmengchang in Hubei 1975.
5. In addition, there are 1942 silk manuscripts unearthed from Chu Tomb in Changsha (1945 flowed into the United States) and Shanxi Houma League manuscripts.
6. Whether it is written on bamboo slips or silk fabrics, it is the handwriting of the Warring States period.
7. The ink marks of these bamboo slips and silk books are not only precious cultural relics, but also of great historical value for studying the history of calligraphy.
8. The Four Silk Books, also known as the Book of Chu, are divided into three parts, namely, astronomical phenomena, catastrophes, four-hour operation and moon-making taboos. Their content is rich and complex, which not only records the myths and legends and customs circulating in Chu, but also contains the thoughts of Yin-Yang and Five Elements and the idea of the connection between man and nature.
9. There are 12 weird gods around the characters, and trees with four colors of green, red, white and black are painted in the four corners of the silk book.
10. As far as the calligraphy art of silk books is concerned, its ranking is generally neat and the spacing is basically the same, and it strives to be neat and tidy without losing its chic.
1 1, its font is flat and stable, balanced and symmetrical, correct and serious, and its brushwork is round and smooth, with twists and turns. Its music is fascinating in the change of thickness and rhyme in the frustration of stippling, which fully shows the author's deliberate pursuit of artistic writing.
12. Portraits of silk books are listed around the text. They draw sketches with thin lines first, and then color them. It seems to be painted casually, but the inscription of 12 is vividly portrayed in different postures. They stand or lie, run or jump, and they are all lifelike.
13. At the same time, the painted statues show strong realism, such as the markings on some statues, which are meticulous and real, as if they were removed from the tiger and leopard.
14 Especially the trees painted around the silk book are shaped with objects, and the swaying branches are swaying according to the image, which can be described as nuanced.
15 The Book of Chu Silk is not only a treasure of ancient art in China, but also a treasure and wonderful work in the world art history.
16, Chu silk book Chu silk book is 38.5 cm high from top to bottom and 46.2 cm wide from left to right. There are two paragraphs with opposite writing directions in the middle, one is 13 and the other is 8 lines, which can be divided into A and B.
Around 17, there are 12 segments arranged in a rotating way, in which every three segments live on one side, and the corners of the four sides are separated by green, red, white and black trees, and each segment is attached with a supernatural figure.
18. In addition, the silk calligrapher also used a box filled with vermilion as a symbol of chapter division.
19, the whole article is more than 900 words, and there are many textual research works, but there are differences between the notes.
20. The first article has the largest number of words, and the author particularly emphasizes "respecting natural selection". God is portrayed as the master of fate, with the ability to show virtue and reduce punishment.
2 1, the so-called "only heaven is blessed, taking God as an example; Only heaven is a demon, and God dotes on it.
22. "This idea is obviously the basis of the" five virtues "thought since the Warring States Period.
23. Part B mainly talks about myths, but not in isolation, but about the mysterious thoughts described in Part A as the background.
24. Part C is a sideline chapter 12, each chapter represents one month, and briefly describes whether this month should be taboo, such as whether you can get married within one month, whether you can use troops within one month, whether you can build a house within one month and so on.
25. Every month is accompanied by a supernatural person.
26. The basic idea reflected in Part C is the theory of "Shu Shu" of Yin and Yang, which focuses on superstitious activities such as astrology, geomantic omen and divination.
27. The Silk Book of Chu is the earliest ancient silk book unearthed at present. Although there are only more than 900 words, it is rich in content, which is of great reference value to the study of Chu characters in the Warring States period and the ideology and culture at that time.
28. The Book of Chu Silk is also a precious local document in Hunan in the pre-Qin period, which reflects the popularity and spread of northern ideology and culture in Hunan.
29. Before the Chu people entered Hunan, Hunan was a place where the Yue people, the barbarians and the Pu people lived and multiplied.
30. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Chu people invaded Hunan and gradually became the main ethnic group in Hunan.
3 1. After Chu people entered Hunan, they not only brought advanced production experience and technology to Hunan, but also spread the ideology and culture of the north.
32. The northern ideology and culture are most prominently reflected in the five elements of the Central Plains and the thoughts of Yin and Yin.
33. Before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, most of the indigenous Manyue people in Huxiang believed in primitive religions and worshipped various ancestors and gods of nature.
34. After the Chu people went south, they brought their religious beliefs and myths and legends.
35. These two primitive religions and myths influenced each other and merged together, forming the distinctive religions and myths in Hunan during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which was fully confirmed in the Chu silk book unearthed in Changsha ammunition depot.
36. A silk book stolen from the Chu Tomb of the Warring States Period in Changsha City, Hunan Province.
37. Soon after it was unearthed, the silk book fell into the hands of Joe Hadley Cox, an American who was teaching at Yali Middle School in Changsha at that time, and was taken to the United States by him.
38. Later, silk books changed hands several times in the United States and are now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, USA.
39. (There are different opinions about the unearthed time of this silk book: Japanese Umehara Sueji said it was unearthed in the second half of the 1930s; Qian Cunxun claimed that it was found between 1936- 1937; Shang Chengzuo said it was unearthed in 1942; Barnard, an Australian scholar, said that in 1967 and 1973, he visited a person who had participated in the excavation of silk books in those years and now lived outside Chinese mainland, saying that the unearthed time of silk books was 1934; 1973, Hunan Provincial Museum made a new investigation and cleaning of the silk tombs unearthed in that year, and the cleaning report said that the silk tombs were unearthed in 1942; The United States claims that they still have written evidence that silk books were unearthed in the 1930s.
Silk books are written on square silk fabrics with a width slightly larger than the height.
4 1. The whole page consists of three characters, namely, two characters with opposite writing directions in the middle, one with thirteen lines and one with eight lines, surrounded by twelve paragraphs arranged circularly, in which every three paragraphs live on one side and the four corners are separated by red, blue, white and black trees, and each paragraph is accompanied by a strange character.
42. Its content is a book related to calendar taboos.
43. In addition, the scribe used a box full of cinnabar as the mark of chapter division, dividing the middle two paragraphs into three chapters and the twelve paragraphs of the side characters into twelve chapters.
44. Because the three parts of the whole silk book are arranged in a rotating way, the beginning and end of the silk book must be decided before reading.
45. Since the silk book was unearthed, there have been about twenty or thirty kinds of works on silk books by Chinese and foreign scholars, including Notes on Chu Silk Books by Australian scholar Noel Barnard (1937), Notes on Chu Paintings by Hong Kong scholar Tsung i Jao (contained in Forty Volumes of Historical Languages) and Li Ling's of Changsha ammunition depot.