Folklore Thoughts in the Tomb Murals of Han Dynasty

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10.2991/iccese-19.2019.92How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Han Dynasty; tomb murals; folklore thoughts; folklore beliefs

Abstract

The Han Dynasty was the first peak of Chinese painting art since the Pre-Qin Dynasty. Tomb murals were its main style and representative. The Han Dynasty was also a period of great development of Chinese traditional aesthetics. Different folklore thoughts constituted the value support of painting art. The Han Dynasty advocated “regarding death as life” and “attaching importance to funerals to show filial piety”, and carried out the system of “observing and promoting filial piety and honesty”, the lavish burial custom was prevailing. “The beliefs in ghosts and gods”, Confucianism and Taoism were the main ideas in the creation of tomb murals in this period.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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