Incorruptibility culture in Han Dynasty picture stone

Han stone paintings are created on hard stones by artisans with knives. It is a combination of painting and sculpture art, its artistic characteristics simple and natural, really interesting, reflecting the temperament and fashion of The Times. Han dynasty stone paintings have a wide range of themes and rich contents. They vividly depict and record the social life at that time and become a miniature of the history of the Han Dynasty.

In Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places, excavated and cleaned up a large number of Han stone, Han brick paintings are clean and honest culture, it gives us a lot of vivid images of the Han Dynasty clean and honest culture, is the real record of the Han Dynasty clean and honest culture. The culture of clean government in han dynasty stone statues is instructive to strengthen the social fashion of clean government and to us today.

Painting of Dayu Controlling The Flood (Xuzhou Han Stone Art Museum)

Dayu three performance of the family and not into the spirit of public. The story of Dayu's flood control is well known to all. He was a sage emperor with the same name as Yao and Shun in ancient China, and a hero in myths and legends. His most outstanding achievement is the flood control that has always been praised. The story of Dayu controlling the flood is recorded in many ancient historical books in detail. It is said that during the period of YaoshunYu, floods flooded the residents and they were in great distress. Gun was appointed by Yao to control the flood, but his nine years of work ended in failure. Shun ordered Yu to control the flood. Summing up the experiences and lessons of his father Gun and his predecessors, Yu resorted to dredging the rivers and succeeded. The legend of Yu controlling the flood was also widely spread throughout the world. In order to control the flood and relieve the suffering of the people, Dayu passed his house three times but did not enter. Dayu's spirit of selflessness is praised by historians.

In the Han Dynasty, according to historical legends, people painted the story of Yu the Great controlling the flood into pictures to spread the heroic deeds. This painting, "Da Yu controlling the flood", describes the moving scene of Da Yu controlling the flood "three times without entering the house" in a narrative way. The screen is 3 meters long. Dayu's mother covers her face with a burden and cries. Dayu's wife embraces her baby and struggles to shed tears. The han dynasty people admired the ancient emperor, so the three emperors are engraved in one picture, together with the baby in the arms, is Da Yu's son Di Qi, this picture depicts four ancient emperors.

Yu the Great was a representative of the Chinese nation's diligence, courage and wisdom in its struggle against nature. Dayu worked hard to think, hard struggle, because of the power of water, change block for guide, mu first catch hair, discipline. Da Yu's spirit of selflessness, serving the people and caring for the people deserves our praise. Dayu's spirit of self-abjecting and caring for others always reminds us to straighten out our mentality, keep tight the string of honesty and self-discipline, firm ideals and beliefs, draw strength from advanced examples, and start to strictly demand ourselves bit by bit.