Traditional Chinese Zodiac Figure Paintings in China

The Zodiac, also known as the Zodiac, is twelve kinds of animals in China that match the twelve earthly branches according to the year of birth, including rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs. The origin of the zodiac is related to animal worship. According to Qin bamboo slips unearthed in Yunmeng Sleeping Tiger Land in Hubei Province and Fangmatan in Tianshui, Gansu Province, a relatively complete zodiac system existed as early as the pre-Qin period. The earliest handed down document that recorded the same Chinese zodiac as today was Lun Heng written by Wang Chong in the Eastern Han Dynasty. As a totem of folk culture with a long history, the Chinese zodiac has been painted and composed by many literati since ancient times. Next, let's take a look at what kind of Chinese Zodiac is depicted by Fan Ceng, and what are the highlights?

So, who is Fan Ceng? Baidu Encyclopedia records: Fan Ceng, born in 1938, with the word "Ten Wings", is a native of Nantong, Jiangsu Province, a great scholar, thinker, master of Chinese studies, master of calligraphy and painting, writer and poet in China. At present, he is the president and professor of Peking University Chinese Painting Research Institute, a lifelong researcher of China Academy of Fine Arts, the only tenured professor of Nankai University and Nantong University, and a member of UNESCO? Special adviser on multiculturalism? Honorary Doctor of Literature, University of Glasgow, UK, and Honorary Doctor of Literature, university of alberta, Canada. He is a cultural master who combines poetry, calligraphy and painting, literature, history and philosophy, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in contemporary China. He has published more than 60 kinds of poems, calligraphy and painting, philosophy, etc. 160, among which 1 19 kinds are treasured by the National Library.

What exactly is Fan Ceng's depiction of the China Zodiac, and what are the highlights? What does Fan Ceng stand for? Return to Classics and Nature? Practice? Take poetry as the soul and books as the bone? Aesthetic principles, created? Neoclassicism? This is the first of its kind. 20 1 1 won the lifetime achievement award of China Prize for Art and Literature. There are twenty-four words in self-evaluation: I love painting and can write; I resigned and expressed myself quite well; I am good at reading history and have a little understanding of the changes of ancient and modern times. His ideas are obvious in his paintings.

Qian Zhongshu, a literary master, commented that painting is above people and people are outside.