| Paintings on folding fans are a principal form of Chinese traditional paintings. In recent years, its unique artistic merit attracts wide attention of the academic circles, and research findings come in a continuous succession. However, over the past years, few of the researchers paid attention to the reasons why it could rise and develop. The rise and decline of any painting form is not an accidental phenomenon. These forms which include Paintings on folding fans are the results of beauty appreciation in times, and also an inflection of the law of the development of painting itself. Tracing to its source, Paintings on folding fans were born in Japan, and came to China in the earlier Song Dynasty, they became ripe in our country through the innovations of Wumen painters in the middle of Ming Dynasty,.We can say Wumen painters are the setters who roused this painting form. The regional painters'group including intellectuals for the most part also represented a new aesthetic taste of the traditional paintings and times.With the unprecedented development of capital markets, Wumen gained the important position about the national culture and economic activity in the mid-Ming.About city's downtown, the Wu men was same as Bianliang in the Northern Song Dynasty,.But their social and political patterns was different.In early Ming Dynasty, the brutal political environment weaked the people's political ambitions. This situation changed in the mid-Ming. At that time,whether officials or the children of poor farmers and merchants were keen on politic.But the political passion and excitement didn't make the scholar's ideal achieved easily.On the contrary, it reversed their values and idealcompletely.The number of scholars in Wumen increasing sharply,the impartiality of civil service exam disappearing slowly , as well as the barren of politic and the endless struggles of the party, the majority of people couldn't achieved Confucian's ethics at all.In the situation, seclusion became very popular in Wumen.People hang around landscape,and beautiful natural.A incense, a table,a chair,a handkerchief, even a pair of scissors was the target of repeated singing. Staying leisurely was their common life . In the complex of appreciation, the Paintings on folding fans was not a matter of practical tools or ethical education. As a rate-type, this form must made the people to be happy. With the development of scholars-painting in the Song and Yuan , the positive significance of the aesthetic function about entertaining has gained recognition.But whether in political parties's struggle,or subjected to bullying at the time of foreign ,responsibility to the country was the people's only ideal.So, painting which should contribute to the aesthetic education was still the standard code of conduct for people. Since the Confucian's ideal can't be achieved in the mid-Ming,pursuit of the Mind has been generally welcomed. The variation of people's value changed painting's aesthetic function completely, resulting in draw by heart and for play.It is a historic opportunity for the development of Chinese Paintings on folding fans.From the enjoying method of the form,we can found Wumen painter's great passion which is developed by the value of draw for enjoy themselves.Therefore, this paper study about the relationship between rising of Chines Paintings on folding fans and variation of Wumen Painters' aesthetic value.The analysis of social,cultural factors and the aesthetic transitions relating to the rising of Paintings on folding fans can not only further disentomb this form's cultural connotation, but can also provide history basis and thought for the investigation and development of modern painting. |
