A Study On The Painting Concerning Architecture On The West Wall Of Manjusri Hall In Yan Shan Temple

Yan Shan Temple locates in the Tianyan Village 36 kilometers away from the town Fansi in Shanxi Province. According to the carved stone inscription of Jin Dynasty and the handwriting inscription on the west wall, the mural of Manjusri Hall is Painted by Wangkui etc, who were the "Yu Qian Cheng Ying" painters of Jin Dynasty. There are not so many murals from Temples constructed in Song and Jin Dynasty, however, the murals of Manjusri Hall in Yan Shan Temple painted in Jin Dynasty is highly appreciated by people with its abundance of contents and super painting skills, among which the most complete and delicate one is the the Painting concerning Architecture on the West Wall.The contents of the painting focus on a series of Palace Construction, which help us to gain an insight into the society, politics, culture, architecture, art and even people's ideology of Jin Dynasty.The paper makes a close study on the Painting concerning Architecture on the West Wall of Manjusri Hall in Yan Shan Temple, and focuses on three points as follows:First, the mural on the West Wall of Manjusri Hall in Yan Shan Temple is made up of a series of complete Palace Construction. The painter Wang kui combined the the characteristics of Palace Architecture with the social style and features in the painting. The skirt-roof of the front house, the main corridor, the two - storey main hall of the back house, I-shaped plan, and the imperial building with alero doble and cross-shaped ridge line, etc. all of them reflected the new features of palace construction in Jin Dynasty. Meanwhile, the ruling class advocated Chinese localization Policy, and heavily influenced by the Song Dynasty. We can see the close tie of the painting with the architecture of Song and Jin Dynasty from the painting's general layout of the imperial palace, marketplace and restaurant, detailing construction Second, the painting concerning Architecture on the West Wall of Manjusri Hall focus on a series of Palace Construction, among which the manifestation of Jiehua is impressive. We can clearly see the style of Jiehua of North Song Dynasty in the painting, which demonstrated the super artistic level and realistic painting power of the painter. Hence, the writer infers that Wangkui was a painter for Jiehua from North Song Dynasty.Finally, the appearance of the painting concerning Architecture on the West Wall of Manjusri Hall in Yan Shan Temple was closely related to the psycho-tendency of social culture of Jin Dynasty, especially relevant to the main stream ideology of the ruling class.From the study of the painting concerning Architecture on the West Wall of Manjusri Hall in Yan Shan Temple, we can also see the thinking of "Chinese Rites and Music" and "the same origin of the Han nationality together with other ethnic groups",etc. of the ruling class in Jin Dynasty. A full study on the characteristics of architecture, artistic view and deep inner culture of the painting concerning Architecture on the West Wall of Manjusri Hall can make up for the blank space in the previous studies, which is surely of significance for us to gain an insight into the society, science and technology, art and thinking in Jin Dynasty.