敦煌遺畫與水陸畫 -- 敦煌唐五代時期水陸法會研究之二=The Draws on Silk or Paper from Dunhuang Hidden Library and The Types of Paintings for Religion Rituals: The Study of Hanging Draws of The Ceremony of Saving Lives of Water and Land Dated from The Tang Dynasty to The Five Dynasties(Part Ⅱ)
This article has simply studied the purpose of a series of hanging draws for the ceremony held for saving all of the lives from waters and land which their may be employed and the contents of all of the representation and as well as the developing history of the art presentation in the form of a series hanging picture.At the same time,by studying Dunhuang Manuscripts and all the data of hanging draws related to the ceremony purpose so far found which dating from the Ming dynasty and The Qing dynasty,this article is trying to testify the relationship between the draws,hanging silk paintings and painted paper scrolls depicting nearly the entire pantheon of medieval Chinese Buddhist and Taoist from Dunhuang Hidden Library and those draws so called Shuilu Paintings.The article draws a conclusion that most of the hanging draws either on paper or on silk,which are large in scale,from Dunhuang Hidden Library may belong to the type of draws that use for the saving lives ceremony during the historic period of The Tang and The Five Dynasties.
