TITLE:
Viewing the Evolution of Zhou Cang’s Image from the Relationship between Pictures and Texts in Printmaking
AUTHORS:
Siqin Tan
KEYWORDS:
Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhou Cang, Guan Yu, Graphical Relationship, Novel Prints
JOURNAL NAME:
Art and Design Review,
Vol.9 No.4,
November
15,
2021
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.