Luo Shen Fu is a work by Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The original volume of Luoshen Fu Tu is a colorful silk book. It is a long scroll composed of multiple storylines, similar to comics, and has been lost.
At present, there are four books handed down from ancient times, which are collected in the Palace Museum (two books), the Liaoning Provincial Museum and the friel Art Museum. The two figures in the Palace Museum are basically similar, but the scenery is complex and simple.
The whole volume is divided into three parts, which describes the sincere and innocent love story between Cao Zhi and Luo Shen in a tortuous and detailed way. The characters are properly arranged and naturally alternate, overlap and exchange in different time and space, but in the description of mountains and rivers, they all show a sense of space.
Among the existing ancient paintings in China, The Ode to Luoshen is considered to be the first painting adapted from a literary work.
2. Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival
China is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation. It is a genre painting of the Northern Song Dynasty and the only masterpiece that Zhang Zeduan, a painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, has ever seen. This is a national treasure, which is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is 24.8 cm wide and 528.7 cm long, and it is in silk color. In the form of a long scroll, the work vividly records the city appearance of Tokyo (also known as Bianjing, now Kaifeng, Henan), the capital of China in the Northern Song Dynasty in the12nd century, and the living conditions of people from all walks of life at that time. It is a witness to the prosperity of Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and also a portrayal of the economic situation of the Northern Song Dynasty.
This is unique in the history of painting in China and even in the world. In this five-meter-long picture scroll, * * * depicts a large number of characters, cattle, mules, donkeys and other livestock, cars, sedan chairs, large and small ships, houses, bridges, towers and other features, reflecting the characteristics of architecture in the Song Dynasty.
It has high historical value and artistic value. Although the scene of The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is lively, it is not a bustling city scene, but a "bustling and dangerous picture" with a sense of urgency. Officers and men are lazy and pay heavy taxes.
3. Preface to Lanting Collection
Preface to the Collection of Lanting was written by Wang Xizhi, a scholar in Jin Dynasty (AD 353) in China. They made friends at the foot of Zhu Lan Mountain in Shaoxing. Also known as Preface to Lanting, Preface to the River, Preface to Lanting Poems on March 3rd, etc.
On April 22nd, 353 AD (March 3rd, Jin Yonghe, 9 years ago, 166 1 year ago), Wang Xizhi, who was then the civil history of Huiji, and his friends Xie An and Sun Chuo were drinking and writing poems in Ji Ya, Lanting, Huiji, Yin Shan.
Wang Xizhi compiled these poems into an episode, made a preface, described the swimming event, and expressed the inner feelings caused by it. This preface is Preface to Lanting Collection. And wrote "Preface to Lanting Collection".
Emperor Taizong highly praised him. He once wrote a biography of Wang Xizhi in the Book of Jin, praising him as "perfect". He also gave Guiwei a copy of Duty and buried it with the original.
4. Manuscripts for offering sacrifices to nephews
"Sacrifice to a Nephew" (full name: Sacrifice to a Nephew and Praise to a Doctor) is a calligraphy work written by Yan Zhenqing, a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, in the first year of the Tang Dynasty (758). It is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
The manuscript of "Sacrificing My Nephew" is Yan Jiming's manuscript, which is a memorial to his nephew. * * * 23 lines, 234 words. This manuscript describes how Yan Gao Qing's father and son stood up and loyally opposed it during the Anshi Rebellion, so that "the father was trapped and the child died, and the nest turned upside down" brought justice into his heart. Throughout the pen, I feel like a tide, the calligraphy is magnificent, and the vertical pen is bold and unconstrained.
5. "Self-narrative posts"
Self-Narrative Post is a cursive work written by Huai Su, a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, in the 11th or 12th year of Tang Dali (776 or 777). It is a kind of paper and ink scroll. Now it is collected in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. ?
The Self-Narrative Post is a brief introduction to Huai Su's life, and also records the poems presented by Yan Zhenqing, Zhang Wei and Dai Shulun. The whole article is wild grass, with the pen in the middle, like a cone drawing sand table, vertical and horizontal oblique and straight, and goes all the way.
The whole volume emphasizes the continuous grass trend, turning up and down with the pen, jerking left and right, fluctuating, rapid, light and heavy, full of rules and regulations, strange changes and surging spirit, which is the ultimate expression of cursive art?
Since the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the self-narrative post has been a popular calligraphy post in the cursive script field, which plays a connecting role in the history of China cursive script and has a far-reaching influence in the calligraphy field. It is the longest work handed down by Huai Su, and is called "the best cursive script in the world".