Chapter 266: Mural (I)

I listened to Ji Ziyang's words, beckoned everyone to come over, and gathered in front of this mural, which was made up of multiple murals pieced together, covering the entire wall of this tomb, and the color of the whole mural was relatively gloomy, so the tomb that should have been golden and brilliant now seemed very dim.

"The murals of the Qing Dynasty are relatively close to ours, so they are more valuable in archaeology, but is there any problem with the murals in front of you?" Yun Ximing asked me.

"I don't know very well, Ziyang reminded me, let's take a closer look at the mural." I said, as soon as he heard Ji Ziyang's name, Yun Ximing frowned, but he still nodded, and patiently began to study the mural.

"Yin Yin, is there anything special about the mural? We don't understand. Dazhe said.

"Actually, I don't know either, because I don't know much about art, especially murals, which is a branch of the art world, quite professional, and I don't have much say." I looked at Ziyang as I spoke, and made a color at him, and Ji Ziyang walked over.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"What's wrong? What's wrong with these murals, and why are we looking at them? I asked.

"Most of the murals of the Qing Dynasty appeared in temples and courts, because the subject matter was mainly realistic, so where the murals appeared, the archaeological work would be relatively more progressive, because the murals could be more accurately judged at that time. The main feature of the court murals of the Qing Dynasty is that they have a strong atmosphere of wealth and nobility. The pen is fine and cumbersome, the colors are flashy and gorgeous, and the format is strict, because it involves the affairs of the court, so many murals have a fixed formula when they are painted and produced, so there is no big difference, but you look at the mural in front of you. Ji Ziyang pointed to the mural in front of him.

"It's really unusual, why is the color of this mural so dull, basically only blue. And black. It's not colored, it's all a simple line depiction. I said.

"That's right, this painting can be said to be actually a half-finished product. Because there is no coloring. It's just a simple line sketch of a painting. And if you look at those lines, the thickness is not uniform, there are thick and thin. It is thick and dense, the composition of the painting is very casual, the figures are too large, it does not look like a painting that has been conceived, but more like an improvisational painting. It's not just improvisation, but the painter probably doesn't have a very professional foundation in painting, that's why this happens. Ji Ziyang said.

"How can a non-professional artist come in here? This is obviously a royal mausoleum, and if you were to design a mural, it would have been painted by a painter from the court. I said.

"That's right, in the Qing Dynasty, painters were called painters, and most of these people were very professionally trained, specializing in painting portraits of members of the royal family, and then attending large-scale ceremonies and sacrifices, so as to paint the pomp and circumstance of the time as a souvenir. The professionalism of these people, even if a few people draw a painting, I am afraid that ordinary people will not be able to see it, and the author of this painting in front of him is obviously not a person in this way. If you look at the narrative on it, it doesn't look like an introduction to the life of the princess, because most of the paintings have only one person, or two, and even if you want to draw the life of the princess, you will inevitably choose some deeds that can be flaunted to describe, but this one obviously does not mean that. Ji Ziyang said.

"That is to say, the appearance of this mural here was not arranged when the ancient tomb was built, but was created by someone the day after tomorrow." I say.

"Clever, I guess the owner of this painting must have come in with the craftsmen who worked on it, and started working on these walls before the project was finished." Ji Ziyang said.

"But this is even more unreasonable, could it be that in the royal forbidden land, in the mausoleum, there are still people who can be so presumptuous and can paint here?" I say.

"It's hard to say, and we can only speculate so much based on the current situation." Ji Ziyang said.

I told everyone what Ji Ziyang told me, and suddenly Sister Wang Na began to call me, to say that in our group of people, the only one who has a little attainment in art is probably Sister Wang Na, she also has a lot of interest in art, maybe it really made her see something famous.

"Sister Wang Na, did you find anything?" I asked.

"Yin Yin, I just looked over there and found that these paintings look together, as if they tell something, but I don't know much about this era, why don't you come and see it?" Sister Wang Na said.

"You're looking the other way around?" I asked.

"That's right, just now I started paying attention to these paintings from the place where we came in, so when I looked at them again, I still looked at them in that order, and I looked all the way and found that these paintings seemed to tell something, but you still have to study the specifics together." Sister Wang Na said.

"Okay, I'll take a look." I skimmed over the paintings in front of me and walked towards the door where we entered, and the first painting there was not very clear because it was far away from the light source, so we turned on the flashlight and cold light to look at it.

There are a lot of people in this painting, this is probably a painting with the most characters I have seen all the way, there is a young girl on it, she is sitting on a high platform, and the clothes she wears are also very gorgeous, although there is no color rendering, but a single color and line are used to draw a lot of complicated patterns on it, I also saw several patterns of flowers, there are peonies, lotuses, plum blossoms, and I saw that this girl was wearing a dress that should be a pattern of a hundred flowers. Her hair is coiled high, combed in a solemn bun, and she has a lot of headdresses, and her appearance is very symbolic.

There is another girl sitting next to the girl, who is also well-dressed, but she is sitting sideways, she can't see her appearance clearly, and her position is on the left side of the center, it seems that in terms of identity and status, this girl should be slightly lower than the woman in the middle. I guess this is what the two princesses looked like when they were young, and then look at the many people below who are all kneeling on the ground, holding gifts in both hands, these people have been brushed aside, and they are all drawn into a picture, as if they are celebrating some kind of festival for the woman in the middle. It is not difficult to see that this should be the princess's birthday, and many courtiers came to congratulate the scene. But not all of the people who have been brushed across, one of them is very strange, it is depicted extraordinarily, I said before, the whole painting is simply outlined with black lines, some places use blue, now I understand a little, the painter will want to focus on the place to depict all the blue to highlight this place. The figure highlighted in blue is supposed to be a man, and he also touches a box in his hand, but the lid of this box is open, and there should be a hairpin inside, and all the people who come to congratulate him all bow their heads, only this person looks up and looks at the girl sitting in the middle with a happy face.

"This painting is about the princess's birthday, the one in the middle should be the princess of the birthday, look at the dignity and inferiority, it should be Princess Gulun, she invited Princess Heshuo to celebrate together, this is the scene of various mansions sending people to congratulate, but this person should be love at first sight for our Princess Gulun." I pointed to that particular person and explained, and everyone agreed. "Huh? By the way, Sister Wang Na, how do you know that these murals are about one thing? I asked.

"Because there's something in common, look here." Sister Wang Na pointed to the edge of this mural, there are also a lot of people there, but what should be depicted are the subordinates and maids in the princess's mansion, the depiction is very simple, and even the facial features are not very clear, but Sister Wang Na pointed to this, I found that among those people who can't see the facial features clearly, there is a figure that is also painted in blue, if it weren't for Sister Wang Na's careful heart, you can't see it if you don't look carefully.

"I found this blue back, I can't see the facial features clearly, but it's in every painting." Sister Wang Na said.

"I can't even see my nose and eyes clearly, what kind of person is this?" Dazhe asked.

"This person is supposed to be a painter." Yun Ximing said, "He must have personally experienced all these things, so he painted them." ”

"I think that's what I think these paintings should be about." Sister Wang Na said.

"Well, that makes sense, let's move on." I say.

There are two people on the second mural, a man and a woman, the woman is still wearing gorgeous clothes, it should be the princess, but it seems to be getting older, the man standing next to him, handsome, slender, the two are enjoying the flowers in a courtyard, the man is quietly inserting a hairpin into the princess's hair, I noticed that the hairpin is made of blue pigment, it should be the same hairpin in the first painting, the princess is happy, it should be very happy, In this way, it seems that the son who fell in love with the princess at first sight should have fulfilled his wishes. Many ancient princesses could not escape the fate of their relatives, or the political marriage arranged by the royal family in order to win over a loyal minister in a certain frontier, this princess can find her sweetheart in such a vast sea of people, which can be regarded as a kind of luck.

"Look here." Uncle Lu pointed to the lower right corner of the mural, where there were many flowers in clusters, and several figures were hiding among the flowers with flower baskets in their hands, which should be the palace maid who was arranged by the princess to pick up the petals, and among these backs, there was a special blue back.

"That's right, Lao Lu is the same as I noticed this time, in this painting, there is also a special depiction of the blue back." Sister Wang Na said. (To be continued......)