Abstract

Image ofâ�?�?Treesâ�?andâ�?�?Geeseâ�?: The design of travelling and carriages in baoshan chu tomb

Author(s): Zhang Qibin, Zou zhe, Xu Yongmin

The theme of this paper mainly focuses on imagination, where concentrates on ‘trees’ and ‘geese’ of the image of travelling and carriages in the painting box of No.2 tomb to conclude and analyze. Some contents therein related to research methods of fine arts imagination and relevant thoughts are presented. Meanwhile, this paper tends to develop the relationships between the modes of imaginary expression and the truths of narrative episodes, and in analyzing the expressions of ‘trees in image’ this paper is concluded that the trees might not be willows as it was presented in the published papers and that the measurement of shapes was designed proportionally by the painters. In consideration of the authenticity of narrative episodes in the imagination expression, it is speculated that the travelling season was spring according to the relationship between directions of geese flying and the branches swinging.