英语描述三个中国艺术品(清明上河图,敦煌壁画,兰亭序)

中国十大传世名画之一的清明上河图为北宋风俗画作品，宽24.8厘米，长528.7厘米，绢本设色；该画卷是北宋画家张择端存世的仅见的一幅精品，属国宝级文物，现存于北京故宫博物院。

它生动地记录了中国十二世纪城市生活的面貌，这在中国乃至世界绘画史上都是独一无二的。

总计在五米多长的画卷里，共绘了五百五十多个各色人物，牛、马、骡、驴等牲畜五、六十匹，马车、轿二十多辆，大小船只二十多艘。

房屋、桥梁、城楼等也各有特色，体现了宋代建筑的特征。

具有很高的历史价值和艺术水平。

As one of China's ten major paintings handed down from the ancient times, Qingming shanghe tu (Ascending the River at Qingming Festival) is a genre painting of Northern Song Dynasty. It is 24.8 cm wide, 528.7 cm long, and it’s the painter’s only existing painting. Qingming shanghe tu is a national treasure, which is now collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The painting has vividly recorded Chinese city life of the twelfth century, which is unique in the painting history home and abroad. In the five-meters scroll, there are more than 550 different characters, more than 50 head of livestock such as cattle, horses, mules and donkeys，more than 20 vehicles and more than 20 ships of different sizes. The houses, bridges and the city wall also have distinct features of Song Dynasty architecture. On the whole, the painting is of great historical and artistic value.
兰亭序
东晋穆帝永和九年（公元353年）三月三日，王羲之与谢安、孙绰等四十一人，在山阴（今浙江绍兴）兰亭“修禊”，会上各人做诗，《兰亭序》是王羲之为他们的诗写的序文手稿。

《兰亭序》中记叙兰亭周围山水之美和聚会的欢乐之情，抒发作者好景不长，生死无常的感慨。

法帖相传之本，共二十八行，三百二十四字，章法、结构、笔法都很完美，是他中年时的得意之作。

Lanting Preface（Orchid Pavilion Preface）
Lanting Preface was authorized by Wang Xizhi in the East Jin Dynasty, on a late spring day of the Yonghe Year. That day, Wang Xizhi, together with other forty poets, conducted a ceremony, namely a kind of camping or entertainment. During the activity, each of them wrote poems and Wang then wrote a preface for them, namely Lanting Preface. In the preface, Wang wrote about the beauty of the environment and the joy of the reunion, and then he associated the shortness of good days and the uncertainty of life. In the preface, there are totally 28 lines, 423 characters in all. Its art of composition, structure, and the technique of writing are all perfect, which made the artwork Wang’s pride.
敦煌壁画
敦煌壁画包括敦煌莫高窟、西千佛洞、安西榆林窟共有石窟552个，有历代壁画五万多平方米，是我国也是世界壁画最多的石窟群，内容非常丰富。

敦煌壁画是敦煌艺术的主要组成部分，规模巨大，技艺精湛。

敦煌壁画的内容丰富多彩，它和别的宗教艺术一样，是描写神的形象、神的活动、神与神的关系、神与人的关系以寄托人们善良的愿望，安抚人们心灵的艺术。

因此，壁画的风格，具有与世俗绘画不同的特征。

但是，任何艺术都源于现实生活，任何艺术都有它的民族传统；因而它们的形式多出于共同的艺术语言和表现技巧，具有共同的民族风格。

Dunhuang Frescoes
Dunhuang Frescoes consists of Mogao grottos, Xiqianfodong Caves and Yulin Grottos of Anxi. There are 552 grottos and more than 50,000 square meters’ frescoes in all, forming
the grotto group that has the most frescoes in the world. Dunhuang Frescoes are the main component of Dunhuang art, and it’s unimaginable to keep a perfect technique in grottos of such a great scale. The content of Dunhuang Frescoes is abundant. It is similar with other religious artwork, reflecting the portrait and activities of gods, and the relationship between gods or between human and gods, which conveys the best wishes of people and comforts their souls.
司母戊鼎
后母戊鼎是中国商代后期（约公元前16世纪至公元前11世纪）王室祭祀用的青铜方鼎，是商朝青铜器的代表作。

后母戊鼎器型高大厚重，形制雄伟，气势宏大，纹势华丽，工艺高超，又称后母戊大方鼎，高133厘米、口长110厘米、口宽78厘米、重832.84千克，四足中空。

鼎腹长方形，上竖两只直耳（发现时仅剩一耳，另一耳是后来据另一耳复制补上），下有四根圆柱形鼎足，是目前世界上发现的最大的青铜器。

后母戊鼎是现存的先秦时期最重的青铜铸件，铸造年代约在商代晚期，反映了殷商青铜冶铸业的技术水平，是商周青铜器的代表作。

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