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Specific information on silk books
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Silk script, also known as Zeng script, uses white silk as the writing material. Its origin can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period. The earliest existing material is the silk script unearthed from the tomb of Zhuan Kuchu.
The Bullet Library Chu Silk Book was unearthed in 1942. It is 38.7 cm wide and 47 cm long. The text is in ink script and contains more than 900 characters. The font is Chu State script and the images are painted in silk script. There are 12 images of gods around, with the names of gods inscribed around each image, and images of plant branches and leaves in the four corners of the silk book.
In 1973, the Hunan Museum excavated the tomb and determined that the tomb was from the middle to late Spring and Autumn Period. The earliest copy of the silk script appeared in the 1944 "Critical Textual Research on the Silk Papers of the Late Zhou Dynasty".
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During the Warring States Period, there was a calligraphy style that used silk as a writing material - silk script. Silk is a white silk fabric. In the Han Dynasty, silk fabrics were generally referred to as silk or silk, or collectively. Silk, so silk books are also called silk books. The earliest existing silk painting in China was discovered in the Chu tomb in Changsha in the 1930s. In recent years, a large number of bamboo slips have been unearthed. For example, the Wuli Monument in Changsha, Hunan in 1951, the Yangtianhu Tomb in Changsha in 1954, the Yangjiawan Tomb in Changsha in 1954, the Xinyang Tomb in Henan in 1957, the Qin Tomb in Yunmeng Sleeping Ground in Hubei in 1975, and the Haojiaping Tomb in Qingchuan, Sichuan in 1980 Tomb, a large number of bamboo slips from the Warring States Period were unearthed. In addition, there are silk scrolls unearthed from Chu tombs in Changsha in 1942 (immigrated to the United States in 1945), and Houma League scrolls in Shanxi, etc. Whether it is written on bamboo slips or silk fabrics, they are all handwriting from the Warring States Period. These bamboo slips and silk calligraphy ink marks are not only precious cultural relics, but also have important historical value for the study of the history of calligraphy.
The Four Silk Books are also called Chu Zhenshu. The content is divided into three parts, namely, celestial phenomena, disasters, the movement of the four seasons and the taboos of the moon. Its content is rich and complex, not only recording the legends spread in Chu region Myths, legends and customs, as well as ideas on Yin-Yang and the Five Elements, the induction of heaven and man, etc. There are 12 strange statues of gods painted around the text, and trees are painted in green, red, white and black at the four corners of the silk book.
As far as the calligraphy art of silk scripts is concerned, the arrangement is generally neat and the spacing is basically the same. While striving for standardization and neatness, there is a natural and unrestrained color. Its font is flat and stable, balanced and symmetrical, upright and serious, between seal script and official script. Its writing style is round and smooth, straight with twists and turns, and curved with provocation. It shows its beauty in the changes of thickness, and displays its beauty in the pauses of pointillism. The clear rhyme fully demonstrates the author's deliberate pursuit of making words artistic.
The portraits on the silk script are listed around the text. They are first outlined with thin lines and then flatly painted with color. They seem to be drawn carelessly, but the 12 divine records are depicted in different poses and vividly. Standing or lying down, running or jumping, all of them are lifelike. At the same time, the painted statues of gods show strong realism. For example, the markings on some statues are so detailed and realistic that they seem to be peeled off the bodies of tigers and leopards. In particular, the trees painted around the silk book follow the shapes of the objects, with swaying branches, and their lush green bellies are in accordance with the image. It can be said that the craftsmanship of the brush and the subdivision of the description are not satisfactory. Chu silk books are not only treasures in ancient Chinese art, but also treasures and curiosities in the history of world art.