What is the Silk Road Landscape Map? What is the artistic price of the Silk Road landscape map?

As we all know, in the process of historical development, our ancestors left many relics that can reflect the social activities and social relations of various times, so these cultural relics are our precious historical and cultural heritage. In the history of China for thousands of years, many historical relics have been lost overseas, but through various efforts, the lost cultural relics have slowly returned to their hometown. A few years ago, a national treasure cultural relic returned to my hometown, which was the Silk Road landscape map. The Silk Road landscape map is a royal map of Ming Dynasty, with superb painting art and high historical and artistic value.

First of all, the Silk Road landscape map is the royal map of the Ming Dynasty. The landscape map of the Silk Road, also known as the Mongolian landscape map, is an ancient painting in the middle of the Ming Dynasty in China and a royal map used by the court in the Ming Dynasty. According to the research of relevant scholars, this ancient painting is the mother picture with the western regions as the main content in the middle of Ming Dynasty. It is more than 30 meters long and depicts the geographical range from Jiayuguan to Tian Fang. The geographical coordinates of more than 200 western regions, including some important cities on the Silk Road, are clearly marked, which records a lot of original geographical information and has high historical value. This national treasure was lost overseas at the beginning of the 20th century and finally returned to its native land a few years ago. Now it is in the Palace Museum. The Silk Road landscape map is of great significance to China's history, geography and art history, so it can be said that China people are very surprised and gratified that this cultural relic can return to their hometown.

Then, the Silk Road landscape map has high artistic value. The Silk Road Landscape Map is an ancient traditional hand-rolled map painted on silk. When you open the scroll, you can see that this map is drawn by green landscape painting. Green landscape painting technique is the most popular painting method in Song Dynasty, and it is still the dominant technique in the court painting method in Ming Dynasty. Secondly, the Silk Road landscape is painted with azurite and azurite as the main colors, and the overall painting with strong coloring of cyan makes the decoration more intense, while azurite is green as a mineral pigment, and it is still brightly colored even after hundreds of years. And in terms of artistic style, influenced by Wu Pai, the layout has a strong sense of hierarchy, and the paintings of mountains, rivers and hilltops are very distinctive, which makes the overall momentum magnificent and has high artistic value and collection value.

Finally, the Silk Road landscape map not only has high historical and artistic value, but also has very high academic value in geography and culture, so the Silk Road landscape map is one of China's national treasures.