"Painting with white walls" is also a major feature of Bai architectural decoration. Brick columns and tiles on the wall are painted with gray jointing, the wall core is white, the eaves are painted with different widths and decorated with colors alternately. Flowers and birds, landscapes, calligraphy and other literati paintings and calligraphy are arranged in various geometric figures, showing a fresh and elegant taste.
The decoration of the gatehouse can comprehensively interpret and express the patterns of Bai architecture. Generally, pavilions with cornices and corners are used, combined with clay sculptures, wood carvings, colored paintings, stone carvings, marble screens, embossed blue bricks, etc., to form a colorful three-dimensional pattern, which is magnificent without losing the overall style of simplicity and generosity.
Wall painting is the facade of Bai people's homes. You don't have to go to a village or building to see Bai murals. You will find that the eaves and corners of almost every household are colored.
"Wall painting is attached to residential buildings and is a form of expression." This is a sentence that Yang often emphasizes. Painting is not isolated, it forms a whole with bricks, walls, doors and windows. To understand Bai painting, we must understand Bai folk houses, which contain Bai people's aesthetics, integrity, values and soul.
White murals are not colored posters or graffiti in the general sense. On the contrary, it is characterized by black, white and gray. When I came to an ancient town and looked around, the blue tiles and white walls were still the main color. Only when you carefully taste the details of each house, you will find bamboo, plum blossoms, grapes and butterflies painted on the walls and eaves ... which is directly related to Bai culture. Bai nationality is good at absorbing excellent culture, deeply influenced by Taoism and Confucianism, and follows Taoism and Confucianism. The characteristics of Bai people are reserved and reserved, and their aesthetics also advocate elegance without publicity. So there is no big picture on the white wall, try to leave it blank and only fill in the place where the picture is painted.
In Dali, there will be a zhaobi in front of all the more exquisite houses, and the words "innocent heirloom" and "forbearing family style" are written on the zhaobi. This is not the family style of this family, but a self-declaration. "Innocent heirloom" is a family named Yang, "Bai Jiafeng" is a family named Zhang, Zhao is a family named Qin He, and Li is a family named Qinglian, but a "Three Huai Ji" ... It seems more elegant and subtle to use these established inscriptions to report family history than Zhang Fu and Li Fu.
For every Bai people, home is the most important place. They will spend their whole lives and all their money to build comfortable and spacious houses to meet various needs such as accommodation, sacrifice, grain storage and raising animals. Although not every household is a "luxury house", even ordinary people's homes will ask painters to draw wall paintings. Yang said that when I was a child, I lived in a thatched cottage, but even so, I would still paint in the scholarly space at the gate.