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The "Huaxia Danqing" series, specially invited by mr. Yang Bing, a famous scholar, uses professional and vivid narration and exquisite pictures to lead readers into the process of creating brilliant Danqing by the Chinese nation, and appreciates the beautiful picture scroll that moves people's heartstrings and people and sighs together.
A glimpse into Tang Dynasty society from the "Step Map"
Yan Liben (?) –674), a famous painter and politician of the Tang Dynasty, was a native of Yongzhou (present-day Lintong, Xi'an, Shaanxi). His elder brother Yan Lide was not only good at painting, but also an expert in architecture. Yan Liben's painting technicians Fa Zhang Shengxuan, Zheng Fashi, Yang Khitan and Zhan Ziqian. Zhu Jingxuan's "Catalogue of Famous Paintings of the Tang Dynasty" states that "all the characters who painted the crown and the car costume were all mysterious." As a royal painter, Yan Liben was often ordered to paint and record major thematic events, and his works include "Twenty-four Heroes of Lingyange", "Emperors of the Past", "Tribute Map" and "Step Map". The famous stone carving of the "Six Juns of Zhaoling" was carved according to the drawing pattern of Yan Liben.
The "Step Map" is the earliest surviving historical picture on the mainland that reflects the exchanges between the Han and Tibetan nationalities. The picture consists of two groups of thirteen characters. On the right, the group of nine palace ladies gathered around Tang Taizong sitting on the steps, and the group on the left were three figures standing with their hands in hand, followed by the ceremonial officer, Lu Dongzan and the interpreter. Set against the background of real historical events, "Step Map" well expresses the theme of the Han-Tibetan family from the aspects of ingenious composition, divine figures, and costumes that conform to the political and cultural characteristics of the time, and its artistic aesthetic sense and historical significance have been perfectly displayed.
Artistic features
In terms of composition and business position, the painter is quite ingenious. It adopts the traditional continental scatter-point composition method. The painter lined up the three people on the left, each with different heights, increasing in order from left to right, pushing the focus of the whole map to Tang Taizong. The painter uses virtual reality and denseness at the same time, and the jagged changes are obvious, which is very visual and spatial beauty.
Costume culture
By dividing the hierarchy of colors, China's clothing culture reflects a strong political color. In the picture, Emperor Taizong is wearing a bright yellow imperial dress, and the other characters are all low-grade colors. At the same time, the painter skillfully used the red matching in the canopy top and the palace dress to echo the ceremonial officials, setting off a peaceful and festive atmosphere, and making people not feel too abrupt and difficult to accept.
Ethnic relations
The "Step Map" faithfully records the important historical facts of the marriage between the Tubo chief Songtsen Gampo and Princess Tang Wencheng more than 1300 years ago, and the Han and Tibetan ethnic groups and their relatives and relatives have frequent exchanges in politics, economy, culture, religion, customs and other aspects, influencing each other, becoming the earliest picture reflecting the unity and friendship between the Han and Tibetan ethnic groups. Yan Liben's "Step Map" inherits the concept of painting function first proposed by Sheikh in the "Paintings": Ming exhortation, rise and sink, thousands of years of loneliness, and the picture can be learned.
Yan Liben devoted his life's energy to depicting major historical events and figures in the early Tang Dynasty, which also reflected from one side the desire of the rulers of the early Tang Dynasty to learn from history, exert themselves to govern, and achieve a great cause. The "Step Map" truly embodies Confucius's theory of artistic enlightenment, that is, "literature carries the Tao", and paints history in the name of historical paintings and portraits with political themes, and its theme idea is not only to praise Emperor Taizong's benevolent government, but also to promote the theme idea of "Han and Tibetan family affinity", which played a very good role in exhorting the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo rulers at that time.
Speaker: Yang Bing
Yang Bing was born in Xi'an in April 1969. He graduated from the Attached High School of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts in 1989. In 1993, he graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor's degree in art. He is currently an associate researcher at the Forest of Steles Museum in Xi'an, a calligrapher at the Calligraphy Research Center, an expert in exhibition planning and display design at the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, a co-tutor for postgraduate students at the Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, and a visiting scholar at the "The University of The Arts" in Philadelphia, USA (2016). He is mainly engaged in the theoretical research of ancient Chinese art history, contemporary art criticism and practical activities of artistic creation.
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