Historical stories are painted in color on the promenade.

1. The Story of Color Painting in the Summer Palace Gallery The Whole Story of Color Painting in the Summer Palace Gallery is the first book that comprehensively expounds the story of color painting in the gallery. Full-color printing, illustrated with pictures and texts, allows readers to appreciate the essence of China traditional culture and the context of 5,000-year civilization history in relaxed and pleasant reading. To sum up the characteristics of this book, it can be summarized by "seven firsts":

First, for the first time, this book covers all the large-scale figure color paintings in the promenade, including the figure color paintings on the North-South Branch Gallery, Dui 'ou Square, Yuzao Xuan and Zhang Shiting, and introduces the background information and cultural stories of each color painting in detail. In order to fully reflect the history of the promenade and the characteristics of colorful paintings, the book also includes historical photos of the promenade, dotted with many colorful paintings such as landscape painting, flower-and-bird painting, ancient architecture painting, Bo Gu painting and gathering brocade painting, with photos and descriptions of ten ancient buildings along the way from "Inviting the Moon Gate" to "Shizhangting" and a short article "Historical Review of the Summer Palace Promenade". Through these pictures and essays, this book comprehensively and truly expounds the history of the promenade and the profound cultural connotation carried by the colorful paintings on the promenade.

Secondly, after careful textual research, this book reveals for the first time a number of paintings in Gallery Color Painting that are close to the works of famous painters in Qing Dynasty, including the works of Ren Bonian, Ren Xun, Fei, Pan Zhenyong, Shen Xinhai, Cao Hua and Ma Qian, which not only greatly improves the artistic appreciation value of this book, but also restores the artistic value of Gallery Color Painting that has been neglected for a long time.

Thirdly, in view of the disorderly dispersion of color paintings in the promenade, this book arranges all the stories of color paintings in the promenade according to historical stages and story plots for the first time, and connects the 5,000-year history of China through more than 300 color paintings in the promenade. In order to facilitate readers' reading, this book is equipped with a set of "Retrieval Catalogue of Gallery Painting Stories" in chronological order, which is divided into eight chapters, covering various historical periods from the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the Qing Dynasty. While reading this book, readers appreciate the colorful paintings on the promenade, as if wandering in the long history of Chinese civilization. In order to vividly introduce the ancient traditional cultural content depicted by colorful paintings on the promenade to readers, this book also summarizes the concepts of "Eight Bridges on the Promenade" and "Eight Loves on the Promenade" for the first time. "Eight Bridges on the Promenade" summarizes eight colorful paintings on the Promenade and reflects the historical legends that happened on eight ancient bridges. There are also eight colorful paintings in the promenade, depicting the love of eight ancient literati, referred to as "Eight Loves in the Promenade".

Fourthly, in order to enhance the guiding role of this book for readers and tourists to visit the promenade, this book is accompanied by the first carefully designed "Gallery Figure Painting Location Table", that is, "Gallery Figure Painting Spatial Location Retrieval Catalogue". According to this table, readers and tourists can easily find a detailed text introduction of any figure painting in the gallery when visiting the gallery. On the contrary, you can also find the actual position of each color painting in the gallery according to the position number marked above. The "time-space double retrieval system of color paintings" initiated by this book provides great convenience for readers and tourists to appreciate color paintings and taste colorful stories in the long corridor.

Fifthly, after long-term textual research, this book contains more than 1 00 new color painting stories for the first time, involving more than 1 50 color paintings. The book also corrects dozens of mistakes in the past long corridor color painting story books in the form of "textual research tidbits" and "tips". These latest textual research and revision of the book will play a positive role in correctly inheriting the colorful paintings on the promenade, a valuable human cultural heritage.

Sixth, the color paintings of the promenade are basically sorted according to the four themes of figures, flowers (fish, insects and animals), landscapes and ancient buildings. Many of these figure paintings are based on many China classical masterpieces and ancient anthologies, but due to the arrangement characteristics of the above-mentioned long corridor paintings, these figure paintings are scattered and arranged in disorder. According to this situation, for the first time in this book, the colored paintings depicting the same story but scattered in various positions are brought together in the order of returning to the classical original. These colored paintings mainly come from ten classical masterpieces, namely, Five Heroes of the Condor, 60 Romances of the Three Kingdoms, 26 The Journey to the West, 3 Romances of the West Chamber, 6 Yang Jiajiang, The Water Margin 13, 9 Biographies of Yue Fei, 4 Legend of the White Snake and Liaozhai. In addition, there are more than a dozen colorful paintings in the gallery, which are based on China's ancient short stories, modern wonders and ancient prose, and sorted according to their corresponding historical years. Through the above new and orderly arrangement, the "maze of long-term puzzles for tourists and readers has been solved one by one, so that the story of color painting can be fully presented to readers, and readers can enjoy more than ten wonderful stories of China's classical masterpieces and ancient anthologies through this book, thus greatly improving the readability and collection of this book.

Seventh, in order to better express the artistic conception of colorful paintings in the promenade and reflect the characteristics of "poetry and painting are of the same origin" in traditional Chinese painting, in the compilation process, this book collected dozens of poems with colorful paintings as the original title for the first time, and combined with the contents of colorful paintings, it included nearly 100 ancient poems, which further enhanced the artistic effect of "painting in poetry and poetry in painting" embodied in this book and improved the artistic appreciation level of this book.

2. Introduction to the Complete Collection of Color Painting Stories of the Summer Palace Gallery The Complete Collection of Color Painting Stories of the Summer Palace Gallery is a book that explains the color painting stories of the gallery and is printed in full color. For the first time, this book covers large-scale color paintings of everyone in the corridor. Secondly, it reveals for the first time some paintings in the gallery that imitate the works of famous painters in the Qing Dynasty. Thirdly, for the first time, all the colorful paintings in the promenade are arranged according to historical stages and story plots, and the 5,000-year history of China is connected in series through more than 300 colorful paintings in the promenade. Fourth, the first carefully designed "long corridor painted figure position table". Fifthly, more than 65,438+0,000 new color painting stories were collected for the first time. Six, the corridor color painting basically according to the figures, flowers, landscapes, ancient buildings four kinds of painting order. Seventh, I collected dozens of poems with color painting as the original title for the first time, and combined with the content of color painting stories, I collected nearly 100 ancient poems.

3. Preface to Catalogue of Complete Stories of Colored Paintings in the Summer Palace Promenade

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Historical Review of the Summer Palace Promenade

Chapter 1 Three Emperors and Five Emperors, Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties (about 3000-770 BC)

Goddess of waterinfo

The Goddess Chang's fly to the moon

Sericulture in Lei Zu

Doomsday edge

Five old people look at the map.

Sister tong fu

Three please benefit Yin.

Yuqiao question and answer

Fire fighting prince

Congratulations to sb. On her birthday, and wish her long life.

Yaotai provides longevity.

Meet across the milky way

Romance of the gods

Fox possessed

Jiang Shang accepted an apprenticeship.

Wangwenfang county

Gather strength to eliminate yin jiao.

Clairvoyance and perspective

Chapter II Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period (770 ~ 22 BC1)

Bole comments on horses-praising people who are good at discovering talents

Push and escape reward.

I'm out of customs.

Kirin gives books.

Five Blessingg celebrated his birthday.

Fish belly hide the sword

Listen to the piano in the second class.

Boya vast string

Fan Li's boat

Master Dongguo

Benefit from the quarrel between the two sides

Offer a birch and ask for whipping ―― Humble and sincere apology.

Avoid seeing a doctor despite obvious illness.

Homotopy graph

Chapter III The Three Kingdoms of Qin and Han Dynasties (22 BC1~ AD 265)

Zhujiweng

A famous hermit

Sean Jin Lu

A person who repays kindness with heavy oil.

Do one thing under the cover of another.

armillary sphere

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Chapter IV Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties (265-589)

Chapter V Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties (58 1-960)

Chapter VI Northern Song Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty (960- 1279)

Chapter VII Yuan and Ming Dynasties (1206- 1644)

Chapter VIII Qing Dynasty (1616-191year)

Schematic diagram of corridor partition

Gallery figure painting position table

4. Beihai Gallery Color Painting Allusions Gallery Color Painting

After visiting the Treasure Hall in the Summer Palace, let's take a look at another museum with colorful paintings. The long corridor in the Summer Palace is an ingenious masterpiece. Apart from its length and architectural function, the most attractive feature of the promenade is that it is a veritable painted promenade. Between the upper beams of the promenade, colorful paintings are hung. When people wander and admire in the long corridor, it seems as if they have entered an exquisite gallery with unique architecture.

According to the different architectural forms, painters have drawn more than14,000 colorful paintings of various sizes, contents and forms around the promenade. Generally speaking, these colors can be divided into four categories: figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, and architectural landscapes, among which the most attractive are the color pictures of more than 200 characters' stories.

The promenade is painted with colorful character stories, including classic literature, historical legends, myths and legends, and drama stories. But there is no text on the color painting to explain what the content is. People can only guess the content of the story according to the appearance, dress, action modeling and scene setting of the characters in the painting. This provides people with the same viewing pleasure as guessing tracks. Because the deeper you know about China culture, the more stories you can tell.

Like the three characters in this picture, one in the middle is self-serious, with a white face and long ears, one with heavy eyebrows and a beautiful face, and there is a black-faced campus. The environment is in Taoyuan, which is naturally the "Three sworn relationships in Taoyuan" in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In this painting, a young driver pulls a beautiful woman, and the painting is "Feng Yi Lu Tingbu dressed as a mink and a cockroach". The big paintings in the four pavilions on the promenade are called "door head boards". On the headboard, there is an ancient and famous article "Peach Blossom Garden" written by China. This painting depicts in detail the quiet and distant world of Taoyuan. In this painting, a painter looks at the painting on the wall with a pen and wants to spray it out. This is the story of China's ancient idiom "Make the finishing point". There is also this picture of the door head board. The shape of the object can be seen as the story in Journey to the West-"the Monkey King hits Nezha". The Monkey King is majestic, and the three princes of Nezha and Tian will be defeated and flee. The characters and scenes in this colorful painting are very exquisite and vivid, which can be called a masterpiece in the long corridor story painting.

Above the promenade, not only figure paintings contain many story meanings. Flower-and-bird paintings in colorful paintings also express many meanings. Flower-and-bird painting looks like an ordinary realistic description. In fact, there are all kinds of exquisite here. Use the symbolic meaning of flowers and birds and the homonym of Chinese characters to create a picture that represents good luck.

Jiang Guangquan, an expert on color painting of ancient buildings in Beijing Institute of Ancient Buildings: This flower-and-bird painting in the Summer Palace promenade is different from our ordinary paintings. It has rich meanings. For example, you can draw a peony and two bald birds. What does this mean? It means "rich and white", which is a very beautiful yearning. Draw lotus flowers, draw swallows, and draw lotus flowers and swallows together, which means "Haiyan River is clear". On the stability and unity of the country. Draw magpies and plum blossoms. What does this mean? "beaming." Many flower-and-bird paintings in the promenade of the Summer Palace are meaningful.

5. North Sea Corridor Color Paintings Allusions North Sea Corridor Color Paintings Visit the Treasure Hall of the Summer Palace. Let's have a look at another museum with colorful paintings.

The long corridor in the Summer Palace is an ingenious masterpiece. Apart from its length and architectural function, the most attractive feature of the promenade is that it is a veritable painted promenade. Between the upper beams of the promenade, colorful paintings are hung.

When people wander and admire in the long corridor, it seems as if they have entered an exquisite gallery with unique architecture. According to the different architectural forms, painters have drawn more than14,000 colorful paintings of various sizes, contents and forms around the promenade.

Generally speaking, these colors can be divided into four categories: figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, and architectural landscapes, among which the most attractive are the color pictures of more than 200 characters' stories. The promenade is painted with colorful character stories, including classic literature, historical legends, myths and legends, and drama stories.

But there is no text on the color painting to explain what the content is. People can only guess the content of the story according to the appearance, dress, action modeling and scene setting of the characters in the painting.

This provides people with the same viewing pleasure as guessing tracks. Because the deeper you know about China culture, the more stories you can tell.

Like the three characters in this picture, one in the middle is self-serious, with a white face and long ears, one with heavy eyebrows and a beautiful face, and there is a black-faced campus. The environment is in Taoyuan, which is naturally the "Three sworn relationships in Taoyuan" in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In this painting, a young driver pulls a beautiful woman, and the painting is "Feng Yi Lu Tingbu dressed as a mink and a cockroach".

The big paintings in the four pavilions on the promenade are called "door head boards". On the headboard, there is an ancient and famous article "Peach Blossom Garden" written by China.

This painting depicts in detail the quiet and distant world of Taoyuan. In this painting, a painter looks at the painting on the wall with a pen and wants to spray it out.

This is the story of China's ancient idiom "Make the finishing point". There is also this picture of the door head board. The shape of the object can be seen as the story in Journey to the West-"the Monkey King hits Nezha".

The Monkey King is majestic, and the three princes of Nezha and Tian will be defeated and flee. The characters and scenes in this colorful painting are very exquisite and vivid, which can be called a masterpiece in the long corridor story painting.

Above the promenade, not only figure paintings contain many story meanings. Flower-and-bird paintings in colorful paintings also express many meanings.

Flower-and-bird painting looks like an ordinary realistic description. In fact, there are all kinds of exquisite here. Use the symbolic meaning of flowers and birds and the homonym of Chinese characters to create a picture that represents good luck. Jiang Guangquan, an expert on color painting of ancient buildings in Beijing Institute of Ancient Buildings: This flower-and-bird painting in the Summer Palace promenade is different from our ordinary paintings. It has rich meanings. For example, you can draw a peony and two bald birds.

What does this mean? It means "rich and white", which is a very beautiful yearning. Draw lotus flowers, draw swallows, and draw lotus flowers and swallows together, which means "Haiyan River is clear".

On the stability and unity of the country. Draw magpies and plum blossoms. What does this mean? "beaming."

Many flower-and-bird paintings in the promenade of the Summer Palace are meaningful.

6. What are the contents of the colorful paintings on the promenade? The colorful paintings on the promenade include peony in the garden, lotus flowers on the pond, birds in the forest, fish downstream and pavilions. Characters in historical stories, myths and legends, and drama fragments.

Starting from the first panoramic view of the West Lake at Yuemen, the promenade has 546 scenic maps of the West Lake in Hangzhou, depicting the charming scenery of Jiangnan gardens from different angles. Among all the paintings, the most attractive thing to stop and watch is the vivid character story painting.

The story of color painting in the promenade is rich in content and long in time span. From the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the last dynasty of feudal society, it lasted for five thousand years.

Among them, there are traditional virtues that reflect the virtue and etiquette of the ancient working people in China, and there are also historical changes that record the vicissitudes of the times. Apart from some folk stories and myths and legends, these lifelike character story paintings are all selected from China's classic literature, among which Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Journey to the West, The Water Margin, A Dream of Red Mansions and Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio are the most.

Although the gallery is in the royal garden, it reflects many folk interests.

7. What are the allusions to the legend of "painting on the promenade"? Some books say that the promenade was built by Emperor Qianlong to facilitate his mother, Empress Xiao Shengxian, to watch the rain and snow scenery of Kunming Lake.

Gan Long was the fourth emperor after entering the Qing Dynasty. He loves garden art and is very filial to his mother. In the 15th year of Qianlong, in order to celebrate his mother's 60th birthday, he spent a lot of manpower and material resources to expand Kunming Lake, build Qingyi Garden, build yanshou temple, a great benefactor, on Mount Weng, and later change it to Wanshou Mountain.

In order to protect mother from the sun and enjoy the rain and snow scene of Kunming Lake, Qianlong designed and built a long veranda on the embankment at the junction of Wanshou Mountain and Kunming Lake. Emperor Qianlong's mother likes to listen to stories, and often lets the ladies-in-waiting tell her all kinds of stories while visiting the promenade.

Some of her favorite stories let the ladies-in-waiting tell them again and again. After a long time, the stories in the ladies' stomachs have been finished, and the stories told before can't be remembered. The ladies have worked hard.

Later, they came up with a good idea: draw the content of the story on the beams on both sides of the corridor. The more stories are told, the more colorful the picture of Liang Fang's character stories will be.

From then on, ladies-in-waiting no longer have to worry about having no stories to tell the queen mother. Where is the queen mother? Because of my age, I couldn't see the colorful paintings on the beams, but I didn't notice them at all.

It is said that this is the original origin of colorful paintings of characters' stories in the promenade of the Summer Palace.

8. It is urgent to say that after the completion of the Summer Palace, Cixi will spend more than half of her time here every year.

At first, Cixi liked the Jiangnan scenery of the Summer Palace very much. But after a long time, she felt that there was nothing new, especially when Cixi came out from the bedroom and took a walk by the lake every day. At first, she looked at the water on the left and the mountain on the right on the road. Later, she felt bored and didn't want to look anywhere. Cixi thought: at first glance, the mountains and rivers are in front of her, and the four seasons remain unchanged. It's really boring If something is built by the lake, I will just watch the scenery step by step. What should we build? She didn't think it over for a moment.

One day, Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to go out for a walk again, and all the officials were busy obeying and accompanying her. When the party went to the south slope at the foot of Wanshou Mountain, it was raining all the time. Eunuch Li hurriedly stepped forward to hold up an umbrella and took advantage of the situation to observe Cixi's face. Unexpectedly, at this time, Cixi's face turned from cloudy to sunny, and Li was wondering. Cixi said: "The umbrella is really good. It can not only shelter me from the wind and rain, but also let me see another scenery." Everyone is confused.

After returning to her bedroom, Cixi immediately summoned the craftsman and told him what she thought. Soon, a long corridor appeared between the south slope of Wanshou Mountain and Kunming Lake.

The whimsy of a generation of queens has made a beautiful corridor. Let's follow history and walk in the corridor of reality.