The Influence Of ‘Wu Se’ Theory On Traditional Chinese Meticulous Figure Paintings During Tang Dynasty To Five Dynasties

As one of the Chinese native art forms,traditional meticulous figure painting has its spiritual connotation rooted in the traditional blood.Analyzing its painting language form is an advantageous way to learn Chinese traditional culture.In the language of painting,color is not only the most expressive factor,but also has its own unique spiritual connotation.As for the application of color,the ancients created a unique color system--the five-color theory system,which is a color structure system formed under the influence of traditional cultural thoughts such as The Confucian concept of color,the Taoist concept of color,the Theory of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements.This color system reflects the ancient Chinese worldview,cosmology and aesthetic consciousness.Therefore,from the perspective of traditional colors,exploring the cosmology,world view and aesthetic consciousness of the ancients reflected in meticulous figure painting is an important way to understand the internal connection between the five-color theory system and traditional meticulous figure painting.The research content of this paper is divided into four parts:The first part,according to the relevant historical documents,analyzes the formation reasons of the five-color theory system,and how it is integrated with the Chinese classical philosophy.From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Wei and Jin Dynasties,Confucianism and Taoism had the most representative and far-reaching influence on color in traditional philosophical thoughts.It can even be said that The Color view of Confucianism and Taoism had a direct impact on the aesthetic judgment of color in the entire ancient feudal society.The ancients not only established the ritual and hierarchy of using color,but also set up the corresponding relationship between color and natural law,and endowed color with the spiritual connotation of worship and symbol.This also means that when studying the specific influence of the five-color theory system on the traditional meticulous figure painting in tang dynasty and the Five Dynasties,we need to look for the theoretical and ideological basis from the Confucian color view and The Taoist color view.The second part,based on the extant historical image data from The Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties and the historical documents related to the costume system and the ritual system,analyzes the color and style characteristics of the costume from the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties,and lays a theoretical foundation for the later understanding of the connection between the costume color and the five-color theory system.In addition,while analyzing the color,it conducts relevant analysis and research on the rising of color of Zen Buddhism in tang Dynasty.Because the development of Color view of Zen Buddhism is synchronized with the color transformation of Chinese painting,diversified color view must make the color of traditional meticulous figure painting present a diversified trend.This means that the five-color theory system is facing new ideological challenges,and the appearance of image colors will be different from the past.The third part,starting from the theory of imagology and the theory of ancient Chinese painting,analyzes the relationship of the symbolic significance of images in traditional meticulous figure painting from the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties,traditional aesthetic thoughts and the theory of five colors.Taking the classical literature of Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism as the original basis for the study of imagology and centering on the theory of color in ancient painting theory,this paper conducts color research and seeks another feasible method to interpret traditional meticulous figure painting.The fourth part,compares the color of meticulous figure paintings in the tang Dynasty and the color in the five Dynasties period,and analyzes of the differences between the two periods of the screen color.The possible reasons for the differences in painting colors between the two periods include: the change in the use of paint,the rise of Zen and ink painting,and changes on thoughts and mood of painters during the rise and fall of the dynasties.