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China's earliest monograph on the history of painting.
The earliest monograph on the history of painting in China is Zhang Yanyuan's Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties.

Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties was written by Zhang Yanyuan in Tang Dynasty, and it is the first painting history book of China. The painting history recorded from ancient times to the time when the author lived (84 1 in the first year of Huichang, Tang Wuzong). This book systematically discusses many problems related to painting from theory to practice, and it is rich in content.

brief Introduction of the content

Comment on the historical development of painting and expound the painting theory, that is, the whole content of the first volume of the original book and the first two sections of the second volume. The section "Narrating the Origin of Painting" discusses the origin of painting and its relationship with politics and education. The section "Narrating the Rise and Fall of Paintings" describes the rise and fall of Tibetan paintings of royal nobles in past dynasties. The section "On Six Methods of Painting" expounds Sheikh's "Six Methods".

It also points out the differences between "ancient", "medieval" and "modern" painting styles. The section "On Lu Gu and Zhang Wu's Writing Style" makes a detailed analysis of the writing styles of Gu Kaizhi, Lu Tanwei, Zhang Sengyou and Wu Daozi, and focuses on Wu Daozi's artistic attainments.

The narrative of the Collection of Forensic Medicine is the last three sections of the second and third volumes of the original book. Among them, the section "On the extension of painting style" puts forward five grades of evaluating works: natural, smart, wonderful, refined and meticulous, and discusses the selection of painting materials and processing and copying. The section "Postscript and Postscript Department" describes the ancient system of Postscript and Postscript Department, as well as some important appraisers and makers.

The section "Public and Private Seals Since Ancient Times" records the seals used by important collectors in ancient and modern times. On the Installation Shaft tells the installation history, installation technology and installation system. The section "Recording Temple Murals in Two States Outside Beijing" records the authors, themes, locations and artistic features of temple murals in Chang 'an and Luoyang at that time. "Handed down secrets, drawing precious pictures" is a description of the names of some handed down works.

The original book, from Volume 4 to Volume 10, is the biographies of more than 370 painters, which began in the legendary era and ended in the first year of Huichang in the Tang Dynasty (84 1), and arranged roughly in chronological order. Or a biography of one person, or a biography of father and son, with detailed contents, including the painter's name, background, deeds, specialties, year of death, writings, previous comments and descriptions of works, and grades and comments listed by Zhang Yanyuan.

In the section "Narrating the Origin of Painting", he pointed out that painting art is an important cultural phenomenon and painting is an image education tool. In the section "Syria teaches the Northern and Southern Dynasties", we trace the painter's inheritance relationship from the relationship between teachers and teachers, emphasize the tradition of painting art, and point out that "clothes, cars, customs, human feelings, different times, different north and south", so we should take the reality of the content seriously.