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A Brief Introduction of Han Xizai's The Night Banquet.

Gu, a native of Jiangnan, was a painter of Southern Tang Painting Academy in the Five Dynasties. His "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" is rigorous and delicate in composition, elegant and vivid in character modeling, rich and smooth in lines and bright and elegant in colors, which fully embodies the style and characteristics of figure painting in the Five Dynasties in terms of techniques and styles.

The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-960 AD) is a turbulent and divisive era in the history of China, but it is an important period in the art of painting. The pursuit of artistic conception and the exploration of interest have made new progress in landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting, which indicates that painting will shift from narrative to higher-level lyricism. The figure paintings of the Five Dynasties are also more exquisite, which combines the simplicity and boldness of Qin and Han Dynasties with the significance of Wei and Jin Dynasties, and gradually dilutes the grandeur of the Tang Dynasty. However, figure painting has not been able to get rid of the secular function of "preaching and teaching to solve doubts", requiring vivid representation of real events and characters, which directly promotes the development of realistic techniques objectively. From ancient figure paintings, we can not only know some historical events, but also understand the face of that era and people's spiritual realm through the vivid images of fertile farmers or moderate people.

According to Xuanhe Map, Han Xizai's Night Banquet Map was written by Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who went to Han Xizai Mansion to spy on her banquet at night. Han Xizai, the protagonist in the painting, came from a noble family in the north and took refuge in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Houzhu wanted to appoint him as prime minister, but Han Xizai saw that the country was in trouble and refused to take the post, so he indulged himself all day and drank wine with his guests for a long time. Most of the other characters in the painting are real people, such as Lang Kui, the top scholar, and Deming, a monk, who are frequent visitors to North Korea. In the picture scroll, although Han Xizai is a degenerate, he is always frowning, and it is hard to hide his worries. The console table is relatively low, which is a transitional period from sitting on the floor to sitting on the feet. Pipa, flute and drum, beds with beautiful piers and indoor furnishings all reflect the characteristics of the times. Realistic themes require painters to observe life deeply, capture the details of life, remember it with their eyes, appreciate it carefully, and then reproduce it artistically, raising the natural form to an artistic form.

The Night Banquet adopts the traditional continuous story expression of China. It is divided into several parts with screens as the plot progresses, and the protagonist Han Xizai appears in each part. By listening to music, watching dance, having a rest, playing flute and hosting a banquet, the whole scene of the banquet is described in the form of a narrative poem. The painter carefully arranged the composition. Each paragraph has a plot, a place and a combination of characters. Each paragraph is relatively independent, but unified in a strict overall layout. Complexity meets simplicity, and reality is full of rhythm. The three pictures in the picture are not the same, which reflects the artist's ingenuity. The trend of the characters is rich, dense and well expressed, and the whole picture is stored in the picture scroll, which is close and full of tension. In the third scene, a candlestick was placed with red candles shining high, which pointed out the specific time of the banquet, but did not describe the night in detail. This traditional image expression technique and way in China has become a "meaningful form".

The painter's portrayal of characters is particularly in-depth, and the spirit is written in form, showing a superb artistic level. The figure painting techniques in the Five Dynasties have developed unprecedentedly, and Gu is a famous figure painter. In ancient times, portrait painting was called "portrait", and "truth" refers to the inner spiritual essence of the object, that is, "God". With superb portrait skills, creating figure paintings is naturally handy. Through the corresponding description of different objects' postures, eyes and gestures, some of the characters in the painting are dancing, some are happy with the beat, and the modality is vivid. Moreover, the protagonist deliberately describes it and is full of songs. Han Xizai is tall, with a long beard and a high scarf. From listening at the bar to waving a hammer and drumming until the end of the song, his eyebrows are always locked on different occasions. He was thoughtful and depressed, in sharp contrast to the scene of singing and dancing music at the banquet. It shows Han Xizai's complicated inner world and depicts the special characters, which is very vivid, thus deepening the picture of the banquet.

Whether it's coloring or using a pen, the expression of "The Night Banquet" is exquisite and skillful. The ancients made good use of mineral pigments to paint, and after years of tempering, they are still dazzling. "The Night Banquet" uses many colors such as crimson, vermilion, azurite and stone green, with strong contrast, but the whole picture is unified in the rich changes of ink levels, and the colors and inks set each other off, which is moving. The ancients painted with pens. After accurately grasping the physical characteristics of the object, the pen should not only outline the external outline of the object, but also show the essence of the object. Line is an independent artistic element, which has unique aesthetic significance in oriental painting. To sum up, the change in the use of pens is "light words, but it is changeable in practice because of the painter's wonderful understanding and natural spiritual changes." "The Night Banquet" is straight with a pen and smooth lines. In the long line of round pen combined with iron line drawing and You Simiao, Fang Bi is frustrated and has a lasting appeal. The combination of figures' clothing patterns is rich and varied, and the beard and hair are sketched, "hair roots and raw meat are more powerful than health", which has created a vibrant artistic image.