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 1. Civil
Officials’ Portrait
Officials’ portraits in Ming and Qing Dynasties are the
representative of officialdom culture of that period and the embodiment of
Chinese high-quality ethics, which reserve the appearance portrait and
inherited particularity of Chinese officials before and after the invention of
camera and supplement the insufficiency of substantial hand-on to manifest the
high-degree beauty of Chinese material culture.
Q. With regard to civil Officials’ portrait, I’d like to
consult the curator “who were the ancient famous civil officials?”
A. The civil officials include Wen Tianxiang and Qu Yuan, etc.
Officials’ portraits are arranged as “the upper are those of Ming Dynasty,
while, the lower are those of Qing Dynasty” (there was no camera in ancient
time, thus charcoal drawing was used to draw the persons vividly, wherever you
go, the eyes of persons in the picture will follows you, just like alive persons,
which is very lifelike!)
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(This figure is the Portrait of Bodhisattva, where, the
large-size one is the full figure and the left four small-size ones are the
partial enlarged detail of the Portrait of Bodhisattva, which is the work in
the Late Song Dynasty and the Early Ming Dynasty. When the emperors in ancient
time worshiped the Buddha in Buddhist prayer room [hall], this portrait was
hung over the Buddha hall, just behind the statue of Buddha, which manifested
its nobleness).
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