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Appreciation of welcome works

These two murals have a strong flavor of life and characteristics of the times.

The welcome picture is a round landscape painting with bright colors. With black paint as the background color, painted with orange, khaki, brown and cyan. In the painting, willow trees with swaying branches are used as intervals, and different and interrelated scenes are used to depict the plots of people, horses, cars and animals. Lacquer painting divides the scene into five trees, which have different shapes, including two, three, four and five branches.

Lacquer painting surrounds lacquer. From a parallel perspective, you can only see nearly half of the lacquer paintings at a time. And the whole lacquer painting can be understood in two parts. The first part is five-three-three-four; The second part is four branches-two branches-five branches.

The content of the first part divides this picture into three units with two trident trees, which represent the departure places of the host and guests respectively. A fast-running jackal and a dog are drawn between two trigeminal trees, which symbolically represents the spatial distance between subject and object. When appreciating this part, put two trident trees in the middle of the perspective. When we moved our perspective to the left, between three trees and five trees, we drove to Sanma. There were three people in the car and a follower behind. This is a group of guests. When we move our perspective to the right, between three trees and four trees, there are five people standing and talking, and two horses are driving to prepare for the arrival of guests. The content of this part is that the host is ready to drive to meet the guests on the way.

To see the whole content of the second part, we have to turn the baking tray 180 degrees. In this part, there is a binary tree on the left in the middle, which symbolically meets the host and guests here. When appreciating this part, the guests' driving in Sanma should be placed at the center of the perspective. The guests have arrived, the host lined up to meet them, the servant knelt down and waited, followed by the carriage and entourage who went to meet them. Under the careful arrangement of the host, the whole welcome process was orderly and extremely grand.

The first part explains that the activities of host and guest are in different places from the perspective of space and time. And the first part and the second part exist simultaneously.