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What are the top ten famous paintings handed down in China?

The top ten famous paintings handed down in ancient China are: The Goddess of Luo, A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains, The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, Fuchun, The Spring Dawn in the Han Palace, The Hundred Horses, The Walking Map, The Palace Maids in the Tang Dynasty, The Five Bulls and The Night Banquet by Han Xizai.

The Painting of the Goddess of Luo was written by Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, with a horizontal length of 572.8cm and a vertical length of 27. 1cm. The original volume is colored silk, which has been lost. As of March 20th, 2024, there are four pieces known to have been handed down from generation to generation, which are collected in the Palace Museum (two pieces), the Liaoning Provincial Museum and the friel Art Museum. The images of these copies are basically similar, but the scenery is slightly simplified. The whole volume is divided into three parts, which describes in detail the sincere and innocent love story between Cao Zhi and Luo Shen. The characters are arranged properly, and different time and space alternate, overlap and exchange. At the same time, the description of mountains and rivers shows a sense of space.

A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains is a silk color painting created by Wang Ximeng in the Northern Song Dynasty, with a length of 51.5 cm. ; Heng 1 19 1.5cm, collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing. Research shows that the main locations of this painting are Lushan Mountain and Poyang Lake. The painting is presented in the form of a long scroll, based on tradition, and the picture is meticulous, depicting the vast rivers and rolling mountains, forming a beautiful landscape map of the south of the Yangtze River.

The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival is one of the top ten famous paintings handed down in China, and it is also a national treasure cultural relic. As a genre painting in the Northern Song Dynasty, this painting recorded the living conditions of people from all walks of life and the prosperity of the capital Tokyo at that time, and it was a portrayal of the economic situation in the Northern Song Dynasty. The picture scroll is 24.8 cm wide and 528.7 cm long, which vividly shows the style of the city at that time by using the scattered perspective composition method.

"Spring Dawn in the Han Palace" is a long scroll painting with characters as the theme, with a length of 30.6cm and a width of 574. 1cm, which vividly reproduces the life scenes of maids in the Han Dynasty. The brushwork of this painting is concise and powerful, and the color is elegant. Trees, strange stones and magnificent palaces are interspersed among them, creating a magnificent scene like a fairyland. There are 1 15 people in the painting, including the queen, Gong E, prince, eunuch and painter. Their clothes are bright and beautiful, and their postures are different, which not only shows a state of idleness, but also shows a busy living atmosphere.

Hundred Horses is the work of Lang Shining, a court painter in Qing Dynasty. The author is Italian, 94.5cm long and 776.2cm wide. This manuscript is in paper, and the original works are collected in the Metropolitan Museum of New York (paper manuscript) and the National Palace Museum in Taipei, China (silk manuscript). This painting depicts 65,438+000 horses in different postures, including standing, running, kneeling, lying down, etc., showing various forms of horses. There are several shepherds at the beginning and end of the picture, which control the whole herd and reflect the harmonious relationship between man and other creatures in the natural world. This painting is considered as one of the top ten famous paintings in China.