A Comparative Study Of The Images Of Mother And Child In Baby Play Paintings During The Song, Yuan And Ming Dynastie

Infant play(also known as "baby play")is an important part of the Chinese figure painting genre.Through the creation of scenes showing children playing and cognitive life,they express the carefree nature of children while also reflecting the ancient people’s memories of their own happy childhood and their expectations for the next generation to have a good life.From its emergence to the Song Dynasty,the infant scene became more and more mature.Due to the relative social stability,economic prosperity,and cultural flourishing of the Song Dynasty,poetry,calligraphy,and painting developed like never before,and the development of baby pictures also reached a golden period,becoming one of the Chinese image histories that condensed the two Song dynasties.During the Yuan Dynasty,when foreigners ruled,the traditional literati turned away from the world,hiding in the landscape and flowers and birds.Figure painting declined,and the development of baby pictures was also affected.During the Ming Dynasty,the emergence of capitalism and the development of the commodity economy led to a wider range of vehicles for infant paintings.In addition,through the use of pictorial and case study methods,it is concluded that as times changed,the mother figure,who was closest to the child,was incorporated into the infant paintings,and that the mother carried the main responsibility of caring for,protecting,and educating the child,and was an important and indispensable role in the development of human beings during their early years of growth.The female figures represented by mothers are inevitably one of the main points in the study of infant play pictures.Through the combing of Song,Yuan,and Ming dynasties infant play pictures,we analyze the images of mothers and children in Song,Yuan,and Ming dynasties infant play pictures from multiple perspectives,explore the cultural ideas and educational views of children contained in them,and explore the influence of ancient infant play pictures on the development of children’s paintings in later generations.