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Content: Kunqu, the oldest extant form of Chinese opera developed during the Song Dynasty in Kunshan, near present-day Shanghai. In the Yuan dynasty, painting by the Chinese painter Zhao Mengfu(趙孟頫) greatly influenced later Chinese landscape painting, and the Yuan dynasty opera became a variant of Chinese opera which continues today as Cantonese opera. Chinese painting and calligraphy art[edit]
Chinese painting
Gongbi and Xieyi are two painting styles in Chinese painting. Gongbi means "meticulous", the rich colours and details in the picture are its main features, its content mainly depicts portraits or narratives. Xieyi means 'freehand', its form is often exaggerated and unreal, with an emphasis on the author's emotional expression and usually used in depicting landscapes. [ 13]
In addition to paper and silk, traditional paintings have also been done on the walls, such as the Mogao Grottoesin Gansu Province. The Dunhuang Mogao Grottoeswere built in the Northern Wei Dynasty(386–534 AD). It consists of more than 700 caves, of which 492 caves have murals on the walls, totalling more than 45,000 square meters. [ 14][15]The murals are very broad in content, include Buddha statues, paradise, angels, important historical events and even donors. The painting styles in early cave received influence from India and the West.