A Thousand Miles Away - The Study Of Xiaojing Painting In The Song Dynasty

This dissertation mainly talks about Xiaojing(small-scenes painting), which first appeared in Tu-Hua Jian-Wen Zhi of the NorthernSong, and then in other poetry collections in the same period. Xiaojing flourished in the middle and late period of Northern Song, whose greatest masters also lived that time, as literature records and existing art works show. In spite of there were still Small-scenes painters survived Southern Song, the shool wholely ended in silence though. As for the title A Rerearch onXiaojing of Song Dynasty, on the one hand refers to a study on the school of Small-scenes painting which lasted in Northern Song, meanwhile the complex meanings of the term Xiaojing in the whole Song Dynasty on the other hand.The dissertation includes five main parts. The firt chaper introduces different meanings and status of Xiaojing in Song literatures, in order to name this term precisely. In the next two chapters, its different themes and forms will be summarized and described respectively. In the fourth chapter, the art works of Hui Chong, one of the most important artists of Xiaojing, will be described and comparised with that of Zhao Lingrang. In the fifth chaper, the thesis is focused on the relationship between Xiaojing and the painting shool from Li Cheng to Guo Xi. As the last part, the reason why Xiaojing generated and flourished in the middle and late Northern Song will be discussed thus the core charicteristic of Xiaojing is to be make known.