Sailing Pavilion is a colorful silk painting created by Li Sixun in Tang Dynasty. Now it is collected in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, China. This painting depicts a spring outing. It is a Chinese painting landscape work created by the author with "green landscape" and "golden landscape". It depicts the integration of Zhongshan, trees, rivers and tourists, boating on the river, and the lush trees and tourists on the mountain shuttle through it.
In the distance, the river is rippling, several boats are floating, nearby trees are lush, pavilions and courtyards are looming, and tourists stroll along the hillside. Its artistic conception is meaningful, rich and steep, with even and elegant colors, rigorous and neat painting style, superb artistic conception, rich brushwork and unique style.
The pavilion on the sail of the river depicts the sight of tourists stepping into spring. From a bird's eye view, the author integrates mountains, trees, rivers and tourists, boating on the river, lush trees in the mountains, and tourists shuttle through them. In the distance, the river is rippling, and a few boats are on the clearing. Close up, the riverbanks are strewn at random, and trees such as peaches, pines and bamboos are lush, and pavilions and courtyards are looming among rocks and trees.
On the slope of Kishinoue, the two are stopping by the water to enjoy spring; I also saw four people coming along the mountain road. The master was riding a horse, and three servants were leading, carrying burdens or carrying things, walking back and forth. The whole painting successfully showed the characteristics of that season, with thick smoke waves, thick lines, scattered trees, winding bank slopes and quiet courtyards, which entrusted the feelings that the author wanted to express at that time.
Creative background:
In the Sui Dynasty, China's Jinbi landscape painting began to mature, and only one original painting, You Chuntu, was exhibited by Zi Qian. As for the highly mature landscape painting, it began in the Tang Dynasty, with exquisite brushwork, changeable mountains and valleys, gorgeous colors and attractive realm. Zhang Yanyuan said in "Famous Paintings of Past Dynasties" that "the change of landscape began in Wu (Wu Daozi) and became (,).
Li Sixun, on the other hand, because of his imperial clan status and rich life in the Tang Dynasty, especially loved the splendid pavilions and magnificent green mountains and rivers, which was in tune with the prosperous weather of the Tang Dynasty and the aesthetic taste of the court nobles. "Sailing Pavilion on the River" is the representative work of China's early green landscape painting style.