A Study Of The Decorate Arts Of The Han Dynasty Stone-carved Picture In Xu Zhou

The Han Dynasty Stone-carved Picture is a kind of stone inscription using formortuary rites, which was engraved on architectures such as coffin chambers,ancestral halls and tomb statues. It appeared in the middle age of Western Han Dynasty ,developed quickly in the late age and had reached prominence by the middle age of the Eastern Han Dynasty.The direct reason for the appearance of the Han Dynasty Stone-carved Picture Art was that Confucian filial piety resulted in the folk grand funeral custom, which embodied the Han Dynasty people's desire for rising to heaven after death. The picture possesses kind of representative decoration by artistic process. It makes the pattern and composition of the natural form adherent to the aesthetic rules. It is a kind of Art form combined by practicality and decoration. It has not only solved the basic problems of decoration pattern in the aspect of imagery thinking, but fully follows the aesthetic art rules.The article tries to research in the decoration manner on the basis of Xu Zhou Han Dynasty Stone-carved Picture; analyzes its cultural background as well as the origin; and confirms with productivity, cultural source as well as other factors. Based on first-hand investigation, utilizing literature and our predecessor's research production and exerting history,geography, aesthetics, as well as other subjects to analyze ,compare,colligate,induce, this article is just written in this form with pictures.Xu Zhou Han Dynasty Stone-carved Picture brings intense local feature design and manner for its exclusive historic status and geographical environment. Meanwhile, it compares the Han Dynasty Stone-carved Picture in Xu Zhou with that of other regions. The city of Xu Zhou owns a special status. Especially in Han Dynasty, as the native place...