| Guqin is a traditional musical instrument of the Chinese Han nationality.It originated in the pre-Qin era.After more than 3,000 years of historical inheritance,it has not been broken down due to the change of dynasties,and become the most representative of Chinese musical instruments.As a musical instrument,the Guqin was respected by the feudal rulers and the scholar-officials,and gradually became attached to a variety of different cultural meanings,and finally jumped to the top of the four arts of the gentleman,becoming an indispensable part of the literati’s life.The Ming Dynasty was a peak in the development of Guqin art,and Guqin images also appeared in large numbers in paintings,becoming a striking phenomenon.The Guqin image in Ming Dynasty painting not only inherits the characteristics of the previous generation,but also carries the unique era mark of the Ming Dynasty,which is the result of the maturity of the Guqin image with social changes and the development of Chinese artistic thought.In the development of the guqin image before the Ming Dynasty,it showed a trend of literati,and was constantly attached to Confucian morality and reclusive personality,and this development of the image also affected the evolution of the Guqin music style.In Ming Dynasty,this literati style stabilized and became a fixed expression of guqin images in painting,which can be roughly divided into several categories: carrying the Guqin,playing the Guqin,and placing the Guqin,and common themes such as literati salon,hermit playing the Guqin and the Guqin in natural landscapes.The interaction between the Guqin people and the literati is also an important reason for the influence of the guqin image,and from the example of the interaction between the Guqin person Yang Jijing and the Wumen literati,it can also be seen that a silhouette of the literati of the Guqin image in the Ming Dynasty can also be seen.The image of the Guqin in the Ming Dynasty is the projection of the literati in painting,the product of the mentality of the literati of the Ming Dynasty,and it is a comprehensive embodiment of the Ming people’s admiration of ancient and hermit aesthetic tastes.Combing and exploring the Ming Dynasty paintings created around the Guqin is not only an extended discussion and in-depth study of the history of Chinese painting and Ming Dynasty music images,but also a key excavation and repositioning of the common artistic ideas of music and painting. |
