A Study On The Images Of Gods In The Illustrated And Annotated Classic Of Mountains And Sea

Under the background of the rapid transformation of China’s economy,politics and culture in the late Qing Dynasty,a modern edition of The Illustrations And Annotations To The Mountainsea with distinctive characteristics of ages and regions appeared in Sichuan area.Among many Illustrations of The Mountainsea engravings in Ming and Qing Dynasties,the image drawing of The Illustrations And Annotations To The Mountainsea is unique.The drawings of the deities in the version has a large number and distinct styles,so this thesis chooses this figure for relevant visual analysis and cultural research.This paper selects the images of the deities in the engraving illustrations of The Illustrations And Annotations To The Mountainsea as the main research object,takes the images of deities in various versions of The Mountainsea in Ming and Qing Dynasties as the reference,and carries out visual comparison and analysis of the images of deities drawn in The Illustrations And Annotations To The Mountainsea in Haiqing Tower edition in Shunqing,Sichuan province in the late Qing Dynasty.Through the formal feature extraction and symbol elements interpretation and other ways to explore the characteristics of style and deep reasons of this version of the deities image drawing.Specifically,it can be divided into four parts.First of all,clarify the concept of the deities image of The Mountainsea,trace and analyze the prototype and image changes of The Mountainsea deities,so as to comprehensively grasp the content of their attributes,characteristics,origin and development.Secondly,through the induction and arrangement of the deities images in The Illustrations And Annotations To The Mountainsea,extract four aspects of the form characteristics of the deities images,such as the elvish deities appearance,the secular deities appearance,the religious deities background,and the lifelike god environment.Thirdly,from the appearance,modeling,tools,background and other aspects of the image of the deities in The Illustrations And Annotations To The Mountainsea,extract various element symbols for image analysis,and demonstrate specific examples.Finally,revealing,go inside from the cultural inheritance,function transformation,image innovation,image narrative angle,combing the evolution of the deities image in The Illustrations And Annotations To The Mountainsea,and through the current visual symbol to trace the historical progress of The Times,to explore the hidden deep in the Mountainsea deities image behind the economic,social and cultural factors,It mainly includes the same root of symbol elements,the commodity of engraving illustrations,the popularity of citizens’ aesthetic and the interoperability of folk paintings.As a popular visual art phenomenon in Sichuan in the late Qing Dynasty,the engraving illustrations of deities in The Illustrations And Annotations To The Mountainsea have distinct artistic styles and characteristics,which reflect the drawing and exploration process of the book of The Mountainsea in modern times.At present,there are few studies on the edition of The Illustrations And Annotations To The Mountainsea in the academic circle.Although the engraving illustration in the late Qing Dynasty gradually declined,we cannot deny that when the engraving illustration industry met the challenge and impact of The Times,the creators still took the initiative to find countermeasures and make changes,and made more efforts to adapt to the evolution of the trend of modernization.A good example is the drawing of engraving illustrations of deities in The Illustrations And Annotations To The Mountainsea.The formation of such images is related to the inheritance of Chinese traditional culture,the trend of cultural commercialization,the change of citizens’ aesthetic needs and the exchange of folk paintings,which provides a space for Chinese engraving illustrations and deity image creators to give play to.Because the images of deities combine the artist’s creative practice with the background of The Times,it reflects the evolution of social reform,economic development and cultural trend of thought in the late Qing Dynasty,and provides us with a new perspective to look back on the historical process.Therefore,an in-depth analysis of such images can confirm the significance and value of The Mountainsea in the history of Chinese art and literature.