The performance of horses in the image bricks of the Han Dynasty

Zhang zijiang

As one of the three portraits of the Han Dynasty, the pictorial bricks are rich in content, including the political, economic, cultural, and folk customs of the Han Dynasty. They are the "Encyclopedia" for us to study the historical culture of the Han Dynasty ".

The image bricks of the Han Dynasty were originally architectural decoration materials embedded on the tomb walls for the decoration of the tomb room and the display of the identity and status of the tomb owner. They were mostly square, rectangular, or bar shapes. The size of the square brick is generally about 50 × 40 cm. The size of the rectangular brick is generally 50 × 25 cm. Because of the use of pattern printing, painting, or engraving techniques on the surface or side of a brick, the images to be presented deeply reflect the social customs and aesthetic style of the Han Dynasty, the cold architectural materials have been given a fresh life, represented by artistic aesthetics, which has played an important role in the history of Chinese art development.

There are many portraits of horse themes in the image bricks of the Han Dynasty, such as chelaile and horse travel, hunting, rickshaw, riding an official account, and riding a bridge. However, these portraits of horses generally do not appear separately, they all appear in portraits along with other social activities.

Because Ma has already been integrated into all aspects of social life in the Han Dynasty and is inseparable from the daily life of people in the Han Dynasty, he can see the shadows of MA in many portraits of the Han Dynasty.

The car, horse, and bridge are painted as bricks. The image Brick not only shows the architectural art of the bridge, but also shows the strong horse. The whole portrait is depicted on a barrier wooden bridge, where three tall and powerful horses and horses run by. One of the two marators has a rolling car, and the car is sitting side by side with two people on the left (Front) one person stretched his hands in front of the driving shape, should be the royal; the right side (after) One person tall and wide robe, hands embrace, should be the master. There was a riding officer behind the car. In the figure, the horse's portrait is particularly prominent, with a high head and a high head. The front foot is flying, and the back foot is walking like a sky. Two of them are riding fast and one is riding beside the coach. The horse in the portrait is neatly trimmed, and the top of the head is blurred. The momentum is extraordinary (see figure 1 ).

Figure 1 crossing the bridge

The "Four Cyclists" image brick. The figure shows four cyclists riding a horse and riding a horse. Four people wear a crown and a fabric, tighten their heads, and create a chimney for desulfurization. http://www.66gk?com/product-65.html#, shouzhi? Ji. The four horse carvings in the portrait are particularly vivid, with different manners. They run fast with four hooves; they look back and look forward to calling; they scream and dance happily; with a bid of your head, you are ready to take the plunge. With its superb carving skills, the carving artist shows the horse's flexibility, flexibility, and unrestrained performance to the fullest, fully demonstrating the understanding of the horse's habits, making the entire picture very dynamic (see figure 2 ). There is a strict hierarchy rule on how many officials ride in the Han Dynasty. What about houhan? Zhi: "under the public to two thousand stone, riding four people. Under qishi to three hundred Shi, county magistrate two people, holding? ......". As shown in the image bricks of the four riding officials, it shows the travel power of over two thousand stone officers.

Figure 2 riding an official website

The car is painted with bricks. The portrait is divided into two parts. The upper part is carved in the form of line drawing as the decorative pattern, and the lower part is carved with relief and wire engraved with three horses Mara with a covered ears. Here, the gentle, elegant and quiet side of the horse is fully presented. The three horses are not in a hurry to take a leisurely step, and the horse is walking in a broken step. The whole horse was carefully dressed up and decorated. The hair on the horse's neck was neatly trimmed, and a tall hair tip was made on the top of the head. It looked very cool, the horse and fur are also very smooth, and a summary is also made (see figure 3 ).

Figure 3 chelaile

As a glimpse of the leopard, although the portraits of horses on these three Chinese image bricks are running, jumping, and screaming in the Dynamic Shape of the horse, there are also various performances such as looking back and peaceful, in different ways. At the same time, we can also see that the decoration style of the horse in the Han Dynasty follows the consistent style of the Han Dynasty's artistic styling: simple atmosphere, reflecting that the horse in the Han Dynasty is not only concise but strong in decorative styling, in addition, it is simple and decorated. From the form of model-based engraving, their common characteristics all show the strong bodies, slim legs, vivid shapes, and concise lines of horses, just like traditional white pictures, it is a typical horse style in the Han Dynasty. For example, we are familiar with the bronze horses and horses unearthed from the tomb of Wuwei East Han in Gansu Province, and the stone carvings such as the horse, Huns, and sleep horses before the tomb of Huo, xingping County, Shaanxi Province, all of them reflect the common aesthetics of hanma gangjian xiongqi.

The performance of horses in the image bricks of the Han Dynasty