Analysis Of Ancient Chinese Pictures Of Silkworm Rearing And Silk Weaving Cultural Communication Factors

The Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving are the images recording the Chinese agricultural production, which depict planting mulberries, sericulture, weaving silk cloth and the other things during the process of silkworm weaving in ancient China. The complete Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving formed in the Southern Song Dynasty, which was drawn by Lou Shu, the magistrate of Yu Qian County (now Zhejiang Lin’an County). Lou Shu’s Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving were well-known as "one of the earliest complete records of men plow and women weave pictures","the world’s first agricultural scientific album", which has always been an important object of study for academia. Due to the evolution of successive versions in the long history, the Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving experienced two creative peak in the Southern Song Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, the pictures developed into a palace painting subjects from the private farming and weaving painting, also evolved into artistic landscapes from a popular scientific album. Meanwhile, natural scenery and the scenes of people lived a peaceful life unfolded from the Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving, came to be a reflection of pastoral ideal in ancient Chinese culture.Overall, the Song Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving style is Concise, beautiful, elegant, the figures in the picture are slim and handsome, the pictures are meticulous and complete. Consistent with the Song Dynasty painting projects, the Yuan Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving show obviously the Yuan Dynasty cheerful atmosphere. Both Kuang Fan’s craftsman style and Chou Ying’s gorgeous, elegant, highly aesthetic value Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving appeared in the Ming Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty aulic Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving,with leisurely, quiet characters and dignified and elegant picture, reflect more than middle peasants farm life in the Qing Dynasty. FolkPictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving are more earthy, full of farm life interest.Based on the Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving ancient rheological history and communication theory perspective, the elements of cultural dissemination of Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving, including contents of dissemination, communicators, Evolution and spread abroad and Transmission function. Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving contents of dissemination, including a silkworm weaving images, poetries, technology, as well as customs and culture,these contents present ancient Chinese silkworm basic cultural outlook.The communicators (painters) of the Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving are mainly general officials, civil painter and court painter, different painters’position and background caused various intentions and styles in painting.The evolution and spread of the Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving include communication in inland and abroad. Its spread ways inland are generally there three types:bottom-up, top-down and lateral flow path; After the Qing Dynasty, there has been a large number of their extension works. External communication is mainly spread to Japan, Korea and other countries, after the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving raged in Southeast Asia, in this area once formed a Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving cultural circle phenomenon. The Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving in the farming culture of ancient China, through the historical evolution, gradually form a complete cultural sphere, which play an important cultural dissemination functions. The Pictures of Silkworm Rearing and Silk weaving Cultural dissemination functions include biographical function, political function, aesthetic function as well as cultural inheritance and communication functions.