Abstract

This dissertation examines the characteristics and visual images of the late Ming publications containing flowers, Sagunja, and fruits and vegetables. In the late Ming period, when the publishing culture developed enough to be called the media revolution, various kinds of books were published. There are a large number of books on flowers and horticulture, which have emerged as major interests of Jiangnam literati since the late 15th century. Among them, publications containing flowers, plum blossomm-bamboom-orchid-chrysanthemum, and fruits and vegetables are important indicators of the awareness of horticulture and visual culture, aesthetic attitudes of the literati during this period. These publications and visual images have been partially discussed in the category of paintings manuals, but the characteristics and contents of the publications, the function of illustration, and the relevance of the paintings have not been sufficiently examined and researched.<BR> Therefore, I divided them into two parts, which functioned as a visual material of plants manuals dealing with horticultural knowledge, which contained the visual images in the flowers, Sagunja, and fruits and vegetables paintings manuals, and investigated its aspects and characteristics. The former shows the accumulation of objective and empirical knowledge and information and the use of visual materials according to the spread of horticultural culture. On the other hand, the latter shows a pattern in which literati paintings are expanding and deepening as a detached appreciation culture with the rise of flowers, four gentlemen, fruits and vegetables paintings.<BR> Hua shi, plants and trees session of San cai tu hui, Cao ben hua shi pu, Mu ben hua niao pu, Mei zhu lan ju si pu, Sun xue ju bai hua lan zhu pu, Shi zhu zhai shu hua pu-Guo pu are the main subjects of discussion. Through this, it was found that Hua shi, which was mentioned as a design collection of letter papers, was book containing gardening knowledge and visual materials on flowers in the four seasons. In addition, among Mei zhu lan ju si pu, which was classified as poetry-insets book as a type of eight kinds of painting manuals, Zhu pu and Lan pu were identified as painting textbook to learn bamboo and orchid. Sun xue ju bai hua lan zhu pu is a new material that has not been dealt with in prints studies until now, and is expected to contribute to broadening the horizon of painting manuals research.

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