China is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down from generation to generation. The original volume "Luoshen Fu Tu" was painted by Gu Kaizhi, a famous painter in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (Song Mo). It is a silk book with a length of 27. 1cm and a width of 572.8cm. This painting is based on Cao Zhi's famous "Luoshen Fu" and is a masterpiece handed down by Gu Kaizhi.
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. This picture scroll is worthy of being one of the treasures of China's classical painting in terms of content, artistic structure, figure modeling, environmental description and pen and ink expression.
2. Born of Gautama Buddha
Born of Gautama Buddha (also known as the picture of the heavenly king sending his son and the picture of the birth of Sakyamuni) is a paper-based ink brush stroke created by Wu Daozi in the Tang Dynasty according to the Buddhist scripture Ruiying Benqi Jing, which is a copy of the Song Dynasty. The work is now in the Osaka Municipal Art Museum, Japan. ?
The whole painting is divided into three parts: the first part depicts a king sitting in the middle, surrounded by a civilian with a rib, a fairy with an inkstone, a warrior with a sword, facing the dragon surrendered by Er Shen, fighting the snake.
In the second paragraph, a four-armed man sits on a stone with his hair hanging over his head and a flame burning behind him. The statue has a strange and magnificent shape, and on the left and right sides are the goddess holding a bottle of stove.
The third paragraph, the picture of Muny's birth, tells the story of the birth of the son of the Indian Sudoku King. From this picture, we can see that when Shi Muny was born, his father took him to the temple to meet the god of freedom. ?
This painting depicts an exotic story, but the people, ghosts and animals in it are completely China-like and Taoist, which is due to the gradual integration of Buddhism and China in the Tang Dynasty. This picture is rich in images, centered on the birth of Sakyamuni, with vivid world image, superb skills, strange imagination and dazzling. ?
3. "The Goddess Presents Flowers"
The Flower Offering of Goddess is a traditional Chinese painting created by Liu Songnian in the Song Dynasty, which is now in the Palace Museum.
In this picture, the goddess is dancing and spreading out with a flower blue in her hand. The Bodhisattva on the other side looks at her and smiles with peace of mind, while several arhats around her are attracted by the dance of the goddess, expressing their appreciation. In the picture, except for the bodhisattva wearing a crown and a garland, which maintains the traditional modeling characteristics, other images seem to be born out of ordinary people, with vivid and vivid effects.
4. You Chuntu
You Chuntu, a painting created by Zhan Ziqian, a painter of Sui Dynasty, is now in the Painting Gallery of Beijing Palace Museum. The picture shows the connection between water and sky. There are green mountains and green waters, lush lakes, literati riding horses or stopping by the lake, and beautiful women boating on the water. It is warm and humid here, the water is ignited by microwaves, and the peach blossoms and apricot blossoms on the shore are lush.
Painters attach importance to mountains and rivers with turquoise, depict foothills with clay gold, dye trunks with ochre, take a panoramic view from a distance, and arrange figures properly, which is the first in the Tang Dynasty and is very representative in early landscape painting. This painting is Zhan Ziqian's only work handed down from generation to generation, and it is also the oldest picture scroll preserved so far.
5. Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival
The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down by China. 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.
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