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What does "Wu takes the wind, Cao clothes come out of the water" mean?
"Wu takes advantage of the wind, Cao clothes emerge from the water" refers to two styles of clothing pattern description initiated by Cao, a painter in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and Wu Daozi, a painter in the Tang Dynasty. Both of these styles belong to the category of religious art, which comes from Guo's Cao Wu Painting Theory in Song Dynasty.

Being in the Wind in the Five Dynasties is an idiom in China, which means that Wu Daozi, a painter in the Tang Dynasty, is good at painting Buddha statues, with a mellow brushwork and clothes blown by the wind. Later generations praised his superb painting skills and elegant style.

The "water" of a grass is a kind of painting style and a concept opposite to Wu Dai.

Cao Yi Out of the Water: The Buddha statue seems to be wearing thin and very close-fitting clothes, and the lines depicting the lines of the clothes are numerous and dense, and the overall feeling is like the effect of wet clothes out of the water. Compared with Wu Cheng Feng, Come Out of the Water appeared earlier.

Cao is a famous painter in Northern Qi Dynasty, and he has no works handed down from generation to generation. The following picture shows the statue style of a grass and water Buddha:

"Five Dynasties in the Wind": the blue leaf depiction used in the clothing pattern style shows the furious pen power and broad momentum of the flying robe cuff. It embodies the elegant feeling of Hanfu's "clothes belt" and has the effect of "clothes flying in the sky and wind moving all over the wall". "The Five Dynasties prevailed" is widely used in Dunhuang murals.

Wu Daozi was a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty, known as a saint in the history of painting. His representative works include Born of Gautama Buddha, Eighty-seven Immortals Volume and murals. The following picture shows the part of Wu Daozi's "A Picture Sent by the Heavenly King".

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"A grass comes out of water" and "Five Dynasties when the wind" are two different forms of expression of ancient figure painting. The difference is that A Grass Out of Water emphasizes formal beauty and deliberately depicts the graceful figure of the characters. The Wind in the Five Dynasties pays attention to the expression of beauty and tends to highlight the demeanor and charm of the characters.

As a religious art style with sharp contrast between the two styles, it attracted people's attention as early as the Tang Dynasty and had a great influence on the development of Buddhist art after that.

At that time, the style of "a grass comes out of water" combined exotic customs with traditional aesthetic elements in China, which made China people feel refreshed and brought fresh breath to the style of Buddha statues.

The painting style of "Five Dynasties as the Wind" was improved on the basis of the previous Buddhist painting style, and formed an artistic style with China characteristics, which promoted the formation of "Zhou Family Style" in later generations.

"Zhou School of Painting" refers to the important painters after Wu Daozi. His Buddhist paintings have become a popular standard for a long time, which is called "Zhou Family Painting Style". There are three volumes handed down from generation to generation, namely, the picture of a hairpin and a phoenix, the picture of a beautiful woman shaking a fan, and the picture of tuning the piano and sipping tea.