Abstract
The ministerial style (taigeti), which emerged in the early Ming period (1403-1435), is not only a concept of writing, but also a concept of painting and calligraphy, reflecting the prevailing aesthetics of the time. Due to the promotion of palace-style painting and ministerial style calligraphy, high officials interwove a space of landscape with calligraphy and painting as carriers, through literary and artistic productions of poetry, essay, calligraphy and painting. Distinct from the political space at the imperial court, this is a space for relaxation in their leisure time, when they had freedom to enjoy the leisure interest of mountain and forest. In the inscriptions on their paintings, these officials established analogic associations between natural images and morality, in order to pursue the integrity of temperament through praising the prosperous age and natural beauty. The ministerial style embodied the harmony and unity of the nature and the imperial court, and individuals, families and the state. In this way it changed the style of mountain and forest literature that formed in the Song and Yuan dynasties, establishing a new literary style in line with the prosperous Ming period.
First Page
93
Last Page
101
Recommended Citation
Yuan, Xianpo. 2021. "The Artistic Field during the Yongle-Xuande Reign the Ming Dynasty and the Writing of the Ministerial Style." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 41, (6): pp.93-101. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol41/iss6/14
