A Study Of Political Publicize Of Xuanhe Paiting Book

Xuanhe Painting Book was compiled by the governmental authority in Song Dynasty. One of its main purposes is for people to "learn from the good and right the wrong". The compiler of Xuanhe Painting Book arranged the included painters by sorting painter’s social identity, works, categories their works belonging to, and sequence, therefore, to realize so called purpose "learn from the good and right the wrong"By sorting the mass original data from Xuanhe Painting Book, the paper concludes that there are four ways in the book to realize its purpose. The first way is to manipulate numbers of the works from various painting categories and from different painters in a way that "learn from the good and write the wrong" is easily realized.The second way is to decide who were selected in the book and by what order, in terms of the painters social status, as well as their relationship to the emperor.The third way is to decide who were selected in the book by the painters’ political standing and their attitude towards Song’s then enemy countries.The last way is to attach political content to the painting theories to reach the political purpose of the book.The dissertation resorts to means of statistics, key works indexing, and data analysis, and a peer-book comparison method to systematically comb and research the "learn from the good and right the wrong" theory. With a quantitative method, the special code of political purpose hidden in the book is discovered. How Xuanhe Painting book realized the purpose is revealed. And finally, the means an authority compiled book uses to manifest "good enough to appreciate for the current and evil enough to act as a mirror to later generations", is completed revealed, and therefore, could act as an example when we read other similar authority compiled historical books.