Jiuquan Ding Gates Of The Tomb Murals

Burial concept mapping people’s attitude towards death, and related historical and cultural and religious beliefs, is human thought development to a certain stage of the product. Since ancient times, influenced by the "ancestor worship" and "death and rebirth" in the traditional concept, people pay much attention to the funeral. Therefore, to provide the tombs would not just be the burial custom and the burial system itself, often also can reflect the social politics, economy, production, life, customs, religion, ideas and other aspects of the situation in a certain extent. And the tomb murals as part the burial culture organic, is more intuitive to use images to express belief.Wei and Jin Dynasties is the period of transition and transformation is very important China art history is also a figure painting, mature period, "to write to God" and "vivid" as an aesthetic theory and artistic principles are put forward at the time, was later revered and become the mainstream of the development direction of future generations of figure painting. Taking Jiuquan Dingjia gates tomb murals as the representative of the Wei and Jin Dynasties in Hexi area sixteen tomb murals of the findings provide valuable physical in order to understand the development of this period of the painting art. Mural painting and portrait painters at the same time, often influenced by the aesthetic fashion and taste in common and dominant. Therefore, this paper will use this to start, focuses on Jiuquan Dingjia gates tomb mural art, from the typical case of the tomb murals in Wei and Jin Dynasties, fusion to study the aesthetic implication and art, especially the figure painting art expression way and its aesthetic characteristics.