The origin and the development of the Pictorial Bricks of Eastern Han Dynasty is one kind of social cultural phenomenon, a product formed in a specific historical stage. It is the society's miniature of Han Dynasty. Reflecting the Han Dynasty's social system, the society relationships, politics and the main stream the thought, the productivity, the war method, the morality,the spiritual belief as well as the artistic quality. And it is regarded as the historical picture scroll of Han Dynasty's. According to may see to the portrait observation, the manufacture portrait method has three kinds: The first kind is, to delimit the picture with the sharp utensil; The second kind ,will be the stamping method, namely will dry the unfired bricks in the sun and wait to a certain degree then paint a portrait with the model; The third kind is to take off the mould, namely pastes the putty on the wooden mold, pats the jail to hit the reality, reverses the drawing of patterns, in manufacture process, portrait synchronization production. Such method mainly appeared in Nanyang and Sichuan province.
The entire brick picture is a complete picture, the portrait arc round bulge has the relief feeling. The solid Pictorial Bricks in Nan yang and Sichuan province mainly adopt this method. The relief is made up of engraving the mold and printing, the yin line engraves technique less utilization, but yan linen graves with the bas-relief technique in the general local universal use, also is more mature day by day. The most representative pictorial bricks are found in middle and late periods of Eastern Han Dynasty. These bricks are used as decorations in tombs. Pictorial bricks are only used in the tomb chamber partially, or uses on gate department, either inlays on the wall, not yet discovered has used all pictorial bricks in the tomb. The number of the pictorial bricks uses in each tomb are different, some used two piecesor three pieces, and even more.
In middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, places such as Sichuan and Jiangsu appeared pictorial bricks in tombs, and the artistic level has achieved the peak of the Chinese pictorial bricks development. The relief image has occupied the overwhelming majority, one brick one mold, one brick one chart, the subject is obvious. The tomb found in QingBai village, Xin Fan town, is a multi- tomb chambers, altogether builds 54 pictorial bricks.
The theme of the Pictorial bricks is divided into four categories, namely social life, historical story, fairy auspicious omen, decoration pattern. The social life included sowing seeds, harvests, hulls rice with mortarand pestle, brews, well salt, the market place, the wineshop, picks the lotus, the carriages and horses goes on a journey, feasts, cares forthe aged, preaches, the plate dance, feathered man(sun) (month), the camel dancing, the garden and so on..
The theme of Pictorial bricks has the certain region characteristic. The productive activity content mainly appeared on the bricks in the Sichuan area, and the paddy field farm crops, well salt, the market place, picks the lotus, picks the tung oil tree, puts the raft and so on. The above pictorial bricks are only found in Sichuan province. The Sichuan pictorial bricks of Han Dynasty pay much attention to the productive activity let us witness the region economy characteristic in Han Dynasty.
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