Abstract
Zhou Cang is a well-known character in the novel “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms”. How his image of the mighty man came into being in the scroll paintings and the illustrations in the novels of the Romance of The Three Kingdoms in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and mainly folklore scholars discussed it from the literature and folklore legend. This article starts from the perspective of the illustrations in the novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and compares the content of the novels. It is found that the image of Zhou Cang has gone through the three phases of the Jin and Yuan Dynasties irregular period, the basic stereotype period in the Ming Dynasty, and the popular period in the Qing Dynasty.
Highlights
Zhou Cang is a well-known character in the novel “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms”
How his image of the mighty man came into being in the scroll paintings and the illustrations in the novels of the Romance of The Three Kingdoms in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and mainly folklore scholars discussed it from the literature and folklore legend
This article starts from the perspective of the illustrations in the novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and compares the content of the novels
Summary
Zhou Cang is a well-known character in “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms”. In Ming and Qing art works, he usually appears as the image of a big man with a beard and an angry face. The archetype of “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, does not appear in the original text of “The Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, where Zhou Cang’s popular image of a great man has become a question. The academic circle has not paid much attention to this, and as a character in the novel, the illustrations are a more appropriate entry point. This article attempts to explore the evolution of Zhou Cang’s images from the perspective of corresponding images and texts in Ming and Qing prints
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