Taoist art of the Tang and Song dynasties, Taoist murals have been quite common

Existing Taishan Dai Temple Tian Kuang Hall of the giant mural "Taishan God Qi bi Hui Luang Tu" to the Royal Court life as a model, depicting the Taishan God Dongyue Da Di out of the patrols and back to Luang scene, the scene is huge, many characters, vivid and realistic, landscape characters set off against each other, the art of the secular tendency of the thick, although by the Ming, the Qing Dynasty painters re-painting, craftsmen to produce traces of the heavier, but still reflects the characteristics of the Song Dynasty Taoist paintings. Yuan dynasty court with "all colors of human artisans in charge of the government", specializing in the management of the construction of the palace temple of all kinds of artisans, colorful sculptor Liu Yuan led the "Van like lifting Division", around the famous painters also added "to be imperial decree "title. Early Yuan dynasty Taoism Quanzhen Taoism had flourished for a while, Shanxi Yongle Palace Taoist mural is a set of Tang and Song dynasty Taoist painting tradition of Chinese art history masterpieces. Yongle Palace mural picture 90.68 meters long, 4.26 meters high, the actual painting size of the gods *** 286. Sanqing Hall frescoes follow the style of "Chaoyuan Xian Battle Figure" to "Sanqing" as the center, composed of a hierarchy of rituals, expressing "Sanqing such as the North Star, where it resides and the group of gods arching the" meaning. The whole painting is divided into groups, there are Thunder God and Rain Master, the South Dipper six Que, the Big Dipper seven stars, Bagua Shenjun, twelve zodiac gods, twenty-eight stars, thirty-two heavenly emperors, and other groups of statues. Each emperor and the Holy Mother of the left and right are more than ten jade maidens serving. Cloudy, magnificent and voluminous, golden and brilliant, showing the great compositional ability of the Yuan Dynasty Taoist painters. Lines round and smooth, color harmony, serene and elegant, solemn and solemn. Pure Yang Hall, another "pure Yang Emperor God traveled to show the map" mural **** 52, seven true Hall of the story narrating the birth of the founder of the true religion of Wang Chongyang, Taoism, Immortality and successive degrees of Ma Danyang, Sun Bu'er, QiuDiJi and other North seven true deeds of the story of the paintings **** 42. These frescoes combine landscapes, birds and flowers, saddle horses, boundary paintings and characters, mainly to show the plot of the characters. Yongle Palace mural paintings are painted by the Yuan Dynasty folk painters collective, they can be called the most creative folk artists in the history of Chinese painting in the 14th century. Since the Yuan Dynasty, although there are all over the Taoist temple to mural painting, but most of the Chen Chen, due to imitation, not very good.