On The Relationship Between The Literature And Image Of The Han Dynasty

The literature in Han Dynasty is significant prosperous, which varies of expression forms including prose, essay, historical biography and yue-fu poetry are of great achievement. Moreover, being recorded people’s life, religion and ritual concepts, Han Dynasty’s images are colorful and abundant as well, such as stone reliefs, brick reliefs, paintings on silk and tomb frescoes and kinds of crafts and so on. According to the existing study, there are complex relationships between the Han Dynasty’s literature and images which are not only correspond with each other, but also have dramatic differences and contradictions under the mutual actions and reactions. By enriching the culture narrations and spirits, literature and images experience the stages from the dependent and co-exist. Overall, the combination of literature and images enriches the form of Han’s images, upgrades the value of literature and diversities the art forms of the Han Dynasty. Therefore we can acquire and accept the deep meaning of Han’s literature and images at a broader and more profound level.There are a large number of motifs in terms of Han Dynasty’s literature and images although the tightness varies in difference ones that represent different Cultural significance. However, three respects can be considered according to the survey. First of all, the immortality belief performed by literature-images, focusing on the West Queen who is the most important deity’s belief in Han Dynasty though the faith is in a changing process. Because literature and images presented the process to correspond and to distinguish, we can provide more evidences to deeply understand the status of West Queen in the culture of Han Dynasty.Secondly, the Confucian ethical code performed by literature-images, focusing on Biography of Women. The Han Dynasty valued the Confucian ethical considerably. Those thoughts such as loyal, filial son, chaste female, chaste and undefiled women received people’s praise because their words and deeds conform the concept of Confucian ethical, this ethos is exposed by literature and images. Accordingly, Biography of Women emerged as the times requirement, whose author Liu Xiang also plotted it in the folding screen, so the book began spread by the combination of literature and images. After that, the ethics function was continuing, while the image of the traditional may also be maintained, appearing various female images. The links between Biography of Women’s text and images are complex, namely, the structure and the narrative intensity. Analysis of the relation of records and images of Biography of Women’s text, combining the atmosphere of commend by images, and researching the different ways to form of literature-images, we are likely to grasp the image narrative characteristics more clearly.Thirdly, the history of legend performed by literature-images, focusing on the Assassin which spread widely at that time, thus, there were less records than the images. More seriously, those text records varies because they belongs differing items whereas text and images are similar in the main characters and the main plots, differences, however, are apparent in picture elements, action figures, pictures and text record plot inconsistencies. What is the main cause to the phenomenon lies in their different spread systems. In order to realize the narrative to maximize the effect of the assassin, all images were" instant" and "juxtaposition" mode of artistic creation in constructing the image, to realize the art and narrative of the double harvest. The Assassin’s image has also reflected the attitudes that people to the upper for Rangers, but the two to Assassin meaning is highly consistent, with burial culture specificity, can differentiate and analyze" the Assassin" a kind of image cultural connotations.The combination of the Han Dynasty literature and art of image enriches the art forms. Thus, studying of the relations between them can approve comprehensive display of Han Dynasty literature and development of images respectively, reveal the characteristics of culture and provide strong turning point to understand the culture of Han Dynasty from another perspectives.