China's Ancient Artistic Achievements

1. Treasures of Chinese and foreign famous paintings

China's painting has a long history. Most ancient paintings are painted on walls or screens. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, portraits of the founding fathers were painted on palaces in recognition of their contributions in laying the foundation for the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC). These palace paintings have long since disappeared today. However, from a large number of Han Dynasty stone reliefs, brick reliefs and tomb murals in Han and Tang Dynasties, we can also see the mural style at that time. They showed the social life at that time from many aspects; It not only describes the life of the landlord class, such as pleasure and corruption, but also shows the working people's production activities such as fishing and hunting, salt making, iron making, mulberry picking, and various wonderful acrobatic performances such as pole vault and pill jumping.

Historical stories, myths and legends, etc. It is also the favorite theme of ancient painters. Gu Kaizhi, a famous painter in Jin Dynasty, has many works that express historical stories or literary works. For example, "Ode to Luoshen" is based on "Ode to Luoshen" written by Cao Zhi, a poet in the Three Kingdoms period, and depicts the scene where the poet and Luoshen meet in Luoshui with rich artistic imagination. His paintings, such as a pen for silkworms to spin silk, are easy at first glance, carefully pondered and conform to the law of painting everywhere. He attaches great importance to depicting the dynamic expressions of characters, saying that "vivid portrayal is in the eyes".

China's painting flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Wu Daozi in the prosperous Tang Dynasty was honored as a "painting saint" by later generations. He painted more than 300 murals and a large number of scroll paintings in his life. Good at painting figures and landscapes, and flying brushwork. His painting style has a great influence on later generations. Li was a versatile painter in Song Dynasty, and figure painting was his best. He is also famous for drawing horses. His works include Free Week, Five Horses and Wei Yan Mu Fang. Among the existing figure paintings, the most brilliant masterpiece is The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan in the Northern Song Dynasty. This painting depicts the bustling scene of Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. The center of the picture is Hongqiao outside the city, with traffic on the bridge deck, shoulder to shoulder, and the hub; Under the bridge, a huge oil tanker is getting off the mast and crossing the bridge. People are shouting and busy. There are various shops, hotels and government offices in the picture, and hundreds of people are busy and bustling. The author's meticulous observation of life, superb picture structure arrangement skills and serious creative attitude are all worth learning. The patriotic painter Boyi Shu Qi Cai Wei Tu in the Southern Song Dynasty reached a new height in characterization.

Along the River During the Qingming Festival

After Wei and Jin Dynasties, landscape painting rose, and in the Tang Dynasty, Li Sixun and Li Zhaodao created "golden landscapes". Because of the use of mineral pigments such as azurite and turquoise, as well as the outline of clay gold, this painting has produced brilliant results. Wang Wei, a painter, advocates ink and wash landscapes and is full of poetry. He is known as "painting in poetry and poetry in painting". During the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, a large number of outstanding landscape painters emerged, such as Guan Tong, Dong Yuan, Fan Kuan and Guo. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Ximeng, a young painter at the age of 18, created a long green scroll "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", which is a masterpiece with a myriad of weather. With meticulous and rigorous pen and ink and magnificent colors, it praised the great rivers and mountains of the motherland that were being ravaged by the gold slave owners and nobles with infinite affection. Paintings by Southern Song painters Ma Yuan and Xia Gui depict picturesque scenery in the south of the Yangtze River. After the Yuan Dynasty, freehand brushwork with ink and wash prevailed, and many painters had high literary accomplishment. They emphasize the expression of inner feelings, and integrate poetry, books and paintings in the picture. But then some people just imitated their predecessors, and their works became more and more divorced from life. Shi Tao, a painter in the Qing Dynasty, put forward the idea of "making a manuscript for all the wonders", opposing tradition and advocating creation, which injected new vitality into the development of landscape painting. Flower-and-bird painting is another important kind of traditional painting in China, which gives people beautiful enjoyment by expressing the lively vitality of flowers, birds and animals in nature. Ancient flower and bird painters attached great importance to observing life. For example, Yi Yuanji, a painter in the Song Dynasty, often went to the mountains for a long time to observe the true ecology of birds and beasts in nature, so the animals he wrote were very vivid. Painters of past dynasties have left a large number of flower-and-bird paintings, whether fine meticulous painting or splash-ink freehand painting, which are full of commercial atmosphere and can stimulate people's association with life. For example, Qi Baishi's jumping frogs, floating fish and shrimp, and various insects, birds and animals have vivid expressions. The unrestrained enthusiasm conveyed by the author through strong colors cannot arouse people's feelings of vigorous progress and love of life! 2. Strange Flower of Art-China Calligraphy China Calligraphy has a long history. With the development of society, the trend of calligraphy is from complexity to simplicity, but the artistic skills of calligraphy are varied. After thousands of years of practice and creation, it has become a rich treasure and excellent tradition of calligraphy art. From ancient times to now, there are Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Da Zhuan, Xiao Zhuan, Li Shu, regular script, running script and cursive script. This is written on animal bones. The structure, length and size are slightly uncertain, and the brushwork is square and fat. The amount of money is small. Extremely intricate, and the style is magnificent or vigorous, the spirit is bright and clear, and the ancient interest is full. Another system is formed from the origin of calligraphy.

After the Han and Wei Dynasties, China's calligraphy really became an art, and many famous calligraphers appeared. After years of hard study and practice, they have made many innovations in writing form, expression method, pen and ink, etc., and can combine brushwork with calligraphers' own inner feelings, so that this art has reached a high level.

Wang Xizhi, known as the "Book Sage" in the Jin Dynasty, began to learn calligraphy at the age of seven, sometimes practicing calligraphy on clothes with his fingers, and sometimes practicing calligraphy under the moon. After years of hard study and practice, his calligraphy art has reached a high level. His calligraphy is as beautiful as a spring cloud, like a bent iron, and his beautiful appearance is integrated with his inner strength. The famous Preface to Lanting Collection is his ink. Regrettably, it has been lost for a long time, and now it is a replica. There are 20 Chinese characters in the 324-word Preface to Lanting, but these 20 Chinese characters are not the same, whether it is structural reform or brushwork reform. Calligraphers in the Tang Dynasty were well-organized, smart, clumsy, simple and powerful; Liu Gongquan is handsome and elegant, bright and moving; The rest, such as Ou Yangxun, Yu Shinan, Sui Liang and other calligraphers, created their own creations in the world. Zhang Xu's and Huai Su's cursive scripts are striking and graceful, like Youlong's, with continuous movements and bold and enthusiastic brushwork. Later in the Song Dynasty, there were Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang. Most of them are good at cursing, or gentle and charming, or plump and ups and downs, or handsome and vigorous, with diverse styles and high attainments. There was a man named Zhao Meng and Zhao Ti in the Yuan Dynasty. There was Dong Qichang in the Ming Dynasty. From the Qing Dynasty to modern times, there were many outstanding people.