Similarities Between Sui And Tang Dynasties

Intro

Wall painting is the most primitive form of recording art and painting in human civilization and art development. In the Stone Age, wall paintings were mainly of hunting, rituals, and warfare, while in the Han Dynasty they were painted in palaces, temples and burial chambers, most of them with elaborate and grand scenes. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the subject matter of the murals became more widespread, with the emergence of the Pure Land Sutra transformations, and during the Song and Yuan dynasties, most of them were religious in content. During the Yuan dynasty, the painting of landscapes, bamboo, rocks, flowers and birds was added, based on the flourishing of literati painting at the time.

Dunhuang, was an important location

The shift in the gender of bodhisattvas is mainly based on traditional Chinese thought, where people always use the term bodhisattva to describe a person with a good heart, and in Chinese thought, women are synonymous with goodness, so female bodhisattvas are more easily accepted by the public. The second is about the fact that the ancient Chinese people considered the queen to be holy and benevolent, so they associated the bodhisattva with the queen so that the bodhisattva should be

In the Northern Wei Dynasty, the bodhisattva was first a child girl to express the innocence of the bodhisattva, but in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it gradually became mature, and according to the aesthetics and preferences of the Tang Dynasty, the bodhisattva also became a wonderful young girl, plump and rounded. In the Song and Yuan dynasties, the Bodhisattva became a mature woman. It is evident that as the times evolved and different national cultures were added, the bodhisattvas in the Dunhuang murals also varied.

The continuous bead pattern on the skirt of the Bodhisattva's shirt in Cave 420 is in the artistic style of Istria, as well as in the artistic style of the Hu people, and is a pattern unique to them.

In Cave 272, the bodhisattva is depicted with ample breasts, a thin waist and a semi-nude upper body, a sensual physical feature in the style of Indian