In The Late Ming Huapu Comprehensive Study

The Hua-pu as a special category emerged in large numbers in the late Ming dynasty when prints were prosperous published. The Hua-pu which was published in the late Ming dynasty as the scope of this article were focused. In accordance with the form of theme and the social function, those Hua-pu were divided into three categories, billing division Hua-pu of professional painters, Hua-pu of literati publisher and square engraved comprehensive Hua-pu and poetry Hua-pu. The first part of the article was the introduction which included the topics origin, the limited scope of the study, the review of achievements, as well as the chapters set and the problem to be solved in the paper. The first chapter recorded the basic information of the Hua-pu in late Ming dynasty, summarize the overall characteristics by the way of list; In accordance with the Hua-pu publishing process, this chapter discussed the associated social and cultural backgrounds and inspected the Hua-pu thriving social factors; it also analysed the historical tradition and the spread function of Hua-pu by tracing the development of the previous billing division Hua-pu. In the second chapter, it researched the social identity of the carver, the specific content and the relationship between the illustrations and text of all the Hua-pu, combined with the sponsor of the arts at that time, analyzed the social function of Hua-pu which mostly based on professional painter by mainly studying the case of the billing division Hua-pu in the late Ming dynasty. In the third chapter, it focused on Zhou Lv-jing and his comprehensive Hua-pu in the Hua-so, discussed the Hua-pu function of the literati painters of the middle and lower class and the prevalence of painting knowledge in the late Ming dynasty literati, which combined with the late Ming dynasty literati culture and publishing culture. The fourth chapter emphasis on the two Square depicts the spectrum:"图绘宗彝"which was drawn by Yang er zeng and"集雅斋画谱"series which was drawn by Huang feng-chi, contacted the prints publishing history and culture of admiration in the late Ming dynasty, analyzed the commercial character of the square engraved Hua-pu which adapted to the reader interesting. It focused on the development and the relationship between the illustrations and text of those Hua-pu, as well as the粉本function of the image; it also analyze the characteristics of the Hua-pu module production by analyzing the poetry and literature Hua-pu.At the end of the article, synthesized the rich discoveries in various Hua-pu study, it summed up the multiple personalities of the late Ming dynasty Hua-pu; it also summarized and evaluated the work of this paper.