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What is the moral of five cows?

What is the moral of the five-ox map? Whose work is "Five Cattle Map"? Wu Niu Tu is the work of Han Yun, a painter in the Tang Dynasty, and is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing. "Five Cattle Map" mainly describes five cows with different postures, and each cow can be an independent chapter. What is the meaning of "Five Cattle Map"? In fact, the status of cattle in ancient times was very high, because cattle were industrious and docile, and they were also the main tools of people's labor, so some dynasties prohibited killing cattle. In the early Tang Dynasty, the number of paintings with the theme of cattle and horses suddenly increased. Until the late Tang Dynasty, many painters were famous for their paintings of cattle and horses, among which "Five Cattle Map" was a classic.

Wu Niu Tu is a jute paper painting, one of the top ten famous paintings handed down from ancient times, also known as Tang Wu Niu Tu, which is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

Wu Niu Tu is one of the few original paper and silk paintings handed down from the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the oldest paper Chinese painting in existence.

The lines in the picture of Five Cows are smooth, the strokes are dense and orderly, and the images of cows are vivid and vivid, with different shapes. As soon as they bow their heads and eat grass, they look forward, lick their tongues, walk slowly and tickle in Jingke.

There is no background such as mountains and rivers behind the five cows, leaving the audience with unlimited imagination.

The author of Wu Niu Tu is Han Kun, a famous painter and prime minister in Tang Dynasty.

Han Wei, born in Chang 'an (now Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province) in Jingzhao, was the prime minister of Tang Daizong period.

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During the Jingyuan mutiny, Han Kun served as an east-west observer in Zhejiang, appeasing the people, paying taxes evenly, maintaining the stability of the county, training foot soldiers, preparing the army, saving the southeast, and transporting millet and silks for the court, which won the trust and reliance of the emperor.

In the first year of Zhenyuan (785), Han Yun was promoted to be the communications envoy of Jianghuai. In the second year of Zhenyuan, he was promoted to Duke Jin and died soon at the age of 65. Han Ming was proficient in calligraphy and painting, and learned Zhang Xu's brushwork in cursive script. His paintings were the essence of the Southern Dynasties masters. He is good at painting farm customs and scenery, especially likes to depict animals such as cattle and sheep. Zhao Mengfu, a painter in the Yuan Dynasty, commented: "The five cows are magnificent and rare in the world."