An Investigation Of Southern Letter Paper Album And Relevant Culture Presented

Letter paper, is a small and exquisite paper, which is based on the traditional woodblock printing method, in the paper printed with beautiful patterns, for people to write a letter. It is composited with poetry, calligraphy, paintings, printing in one form of art. Making letter paper technology development to the Ming Dynasty,"woodblock printing" technology invention and application of "arch stamping" technology, the letter paper designs more and more beautiful. Therefore, this letter paper supplies from literati appreciation to collection of art. If we choose the most beautiful letter paper, according to a certain order of binding books, is the letter paper album.The earliest letter paper album is the sixth years of TianQi in Ming Dynasty (1626A.D.) that Wu Faxiang engraved "LuoXuan BianGu Letter Paper Album", thereafter Hu Zhengyan in Ming Dynasty also carved "ShiZhuZhai Letter Paper Album", and Lu Xun, Zheng Zhenduo compiled "Peiping Letter Paper Album" and so on. Letter paper album regarded as Chinese color woodcut printing technology representative and peak.Based on the letter paper album as the research object, using literature analysis, image correlation concept comparison method, case analysis and cultural studies, described in detail the contents of the famous letter paper album, themes, and dig the cultural significance of note.In this paper, based on previous studies of academic achievement, creatively put forward the hypothesis of letter paper album "North South Sect". The article is divided into five parts:The first chapter is the introduction, proposed the question. The second chapter describes production, development and evolution of the paper and letter paper album, put forward the "North South Sect" hypothesis; The third chapter describes the representative letter paper Album of southern such as "LuoXuan BianGu Letter Paper Album" and "ShiZhuZhai Letter Paper Album", and analyzes its painting. The fourth chapter according to the drawing pattern classification, synthesis analysis of South Sect represent letter paper album culture presents the research prospects on letter paper album.