Two kinds of dissuasive painting in southern Song Dynasty
There are two dissuasive paintings in the Southern Song Dynasty, they are called "portrait of dissuasive Painting" and” Historical story as a means to carry out Precepts of painting”.
The so-called “portrait of dissuasive Painting” depends on viewer's understanding of this character for the precepts. ” Historical story as a means to carry out Precepts of painting” refers to the educational story happened in history passing on advise. Previous “portrait of dissuasive Painting” strongly emphasized on depiction of realistic history. In other words, people will be advised mainly through the sense of reality. Later the figure used the type of treatment and symbol would be added, which conveying precepts simultaneously bringing an imbalanced relationship compared with the sense of reality. Things contact with the others in painting. Simple, something has its special meaning that show the whole society. The painters want to express their implicit thought through the paintings. In a few words, the later “portrait of dissuasive Painting” and” Historical story as a means to carry out Precepts of painting” finished in various forms of combination. This painting is not persistent in the sense of reality, more freedom to express the rich meaning of warning.
There are some problems between remonstrate content and history in” Historical story as a means to carry out Precepts of painting”. But it faces more difficult trouble, because the painters will deal with the actions which connect with the time, the place and the person. About human activity, as long as the time when the past, immediately become “history." In these “history”, because of some different reasons and some different various levels of depth left the human memory. These memories written down in recorded way according to people’s rational judgment from generation to generation, and it has become historical facts." These “facts “have a variety of different meanings for people. One of them is that it contains self-examination function .To have an great an effect on people over a period of time .When the " facts " has influence on people which itself has become precepts . There’s significance different between "history" and" facts”. The former is based on its fidelity recording event -based, while the latter in the event reflect the performance of the main activities. ” Historical story as a means to carry out Precepts of painting” includes both of two quite different factors. Severity of different proportions between the use of this type of painting itself is not only showing the internal problems , but also reflects the different times held attitude.
Southern Song Dynasty, because of the Chinese expansion. The Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty Emperor rarely propaganda subtle political as the Southern Song Dynasty monarch .Previously profound meaning paintings mostly in that environment become undisguised publicity pictures. From this point of view, the regulation painting in the Southern Song Dynasty reached the pinnacle of performance when actually it spoil and become a political propaganda painting begins.