In the Tang Dynasty, many popular books about sexual intercourse were illustrated with various postures, such as Da Le Fu, which mentioned the Sutra of the Plain Woman. However, after the war and the long years, none of these photos remained. However, through some later literati notes, we can still find clues about the paintings of the Spring Palace in the Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Chou, a great painter and collector in the late Ming Dynasty, once happened to see the Secret Play of Spring Night by Zhou P, a great painter in the Tang Dynasty, in Taiyuan. This painting has been lost for a long time, which naturally made him overjoyed and ecstatic. He immediately bought it with a large sum of money, and wrote a postscript in his book Qinghe Yuanzhou:
It was painted by Zhou Jingyuan and collected by the owner of Ou Bo Pavilion (Zhao Meng, a famous painter in Yuan Dynasty, is good at painting erotic palace). Or the queen of the cloud, or Princess Yun Taizhen (Yang Guifei), it is doubtful. It is said that women who paint mostly show off their muscles and bones, and don't make slim and graceful shapes. This picture looks cool, with curly eyebrows, bright lips, trimmed ears, hanging nose and proper position. And the texture is greasy and clean, building fat and carving jade, fighting in the sewer, and the fire is about to vomit. How to restrain it? Speaking of clothes, men wear crowns and silk shoes to travel far, which makes them look like emperors. Women expect fairy buns and stockings to prepare the capacity of empresses. The maid wears a tight belt and presses her waist, but there is a forbidden atmosphere! All kinds of antique decorations are unique to the Tang Dynasty!
The name of my husband's secret play, I don't know when it started. Since Taishi Gong wrote biographies, Zhou Ren had the honor of having King Jing go to bed and have a secret play in the harem, while Ren was always around. In Du Zimei's palace poems, there is also a saying that "the pleasure in the palace is secret and little known", so the name of the secret drama has a long history, rather than starting in modern times.
According to the dark dramas of past lives, for example, men and women depend on each other for personal use, but there are also hidden * * *, such as Jingyuan creating a new picture, with a man and a woman holding two small dishes; At present, a servant tries to resist a woman's seat; And another waiter followed, pushing the man's back with his hand. It is unprecedented in the history of painting that five women and one man play endlessly.
This postscript can be said to reveal multiple information. Let's first learn about Zhou P, a great painter in the Tang Dynasty. He was the most famous religious and figure painter in Chang 'an in the middle of Tang Dynasty. Beginners Zhang Xuan, after creating her own style of painting, is good at painting plump ladies, and she can * * *. It is said that Guo Ziyi's son-in-law Zhao Zong asked Zhou Puyuan and Han Zhiqi to draw a portrait and hang it in the room. Guo's daughter replied after reading it: Zhou P drew Zhao Lang's "smiling posture". His Buddhist statues such as "Shui Yue Guan Yin" were regarded as models at that time and were once called "Zhou Jia Style".
He loves painting women very much, painting them playing the piano, tuning the piano, holding their cheeks and meditating in various ways. His painting of ladies, "Painting is the crown of ancient and modern times" (Record of Famous Paintings in the Prosperous Tang Dynasty in Tang Zhu), so that almost all the ladies painters in the late Tang Dynasty are in the stage of sticking to the "Zhou family style", so it can be said that he is superior in the field of ladies painting in the late Tang Dynasty.
Such a master painter is not ashamed to paint erotic paintings, which shows the atmosphere at that time. What is more noteworthy is that Zhou P's erotic paintings have developed in the inheritance, from a simple pair of men and women to five women and one man, which is a great leap in subject matter.