A Preliminary Study Of Female's Makeup In Tang Dynasty

Vision is an important cognitive form of human beings. Vision is not only one of the perception of the outside world to human beings, but the five intuition of the sound which human rely on to construct and judge the external world. Visual culture is a kind of image based intuition as the main feature of the non-linguistic perceptual cognitive form.Visual culture is a kind of image-based intuition as the main feature of the non-linguistic perceptual cognitive form. This cognitive form for the integration of a variety of different resources(archaeological, cultural, works of art, etc.) and the interpretation of the traditional form of art(such as makeup) have a simple advantage that the language will never reach. The Tang Dynasty(618-907), a thousand years ago, is a rare open, compatible and prosperous period in Chinese history. According to the existing cognitive resources, the makeup art of the Tang Dynasty not only coincides with many laws of contemporary visual culture, but also has many phenomena that can not be explained temporarily by the rules of visual culture. Such as the textualization pursuit of makeup(for example, "the woman who makeup just for her Admirer"- makeup become a narrative text to convey love), the symbolization of makeup, and the communicate function of makeup. If the contemporary cultural perspective and the visual culture theory can be use to interpret all of this, makeup is not just resort to sensual pleasure text narrative, but possess the characterization meaning of the practice of the visual culture. Based on this, this study use the relevant theory of the visual culture, put the remains of the physical material of the four tomb of the Tang Dynasty on the visual culture of the context. From the makeup of the symbol form text meaning and the effect of its dissemination to investigate. And explore the makeup of the Tang Dynasty cultural motives, aesthetic meaning and material technology and other numerous content. Make up the lack of the interpretation of the traditional makeup in the simple language, culture, archeology, art and so on. With the continuous development of Internet and mobile electronic equipment, visual culture presents an override trend of "text culture". It is of great significance to explore the visual cultural symbolic meaning of the Chinese traditional value, the value of the text and the modern value of the communication function, to promote the Chinese traditional art to the modern times with the world and to build the human spiritual and cultural homeland together.