When it comes to women in the Tang Dynasty, people may think of Li Bai's "Clouds desire clothes, flowers desire beauty, spring breeze brushes the threshold and reveals the splendor" and Du Fu's "On the third day of March, the weather is new, and there are many beautiful people by the water in Chang'an". If you want to search in the world of images, the first thing to recommend is the "treasure of the museum" "Hairpin Flower Lady Painting" from Liaoning Provincial Museum, which is known as the pinnacle of Tang Dynasty lady painting. It was the transition of spring and summer in Chang'an, Tang Dynasty, the season when peonies and magnolia flowers were in full bloom. After carefully dressing up, several noble women took their pets and maidservants on a trip: they tied their hair high, drew short eyebrows, wore wide sleeves, strolled in the courtyard, picked flowers, fluttered butterflies, played with dogs, admired cranes, and pondered. Hairpin flowers are a major feature that sets this painting apart from other paintings by literati. The six women in the painting are adorned with peonies, crabapples, lotus flowers, and other fresh flowers, which is a kind of "fashion" in the Tang Dynasty. The "Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao" records: "In spring, Chang'an ladies compete with flowers and wear exotic flowers. The more, the better." Tang Dynasty ladies' paintings mostly reflect the elegant and leisurely life of aristocratic women, and painters represented by Zhang Xuan and Zhou Fang began to depict their palace life, forming the first peak of ancient Chinese female image creation. Dong Baohou, Deputy Director of Liaoning Provincial Museum, pointed to a noblewoman in the center of the painting and introduced that the painter used "high ancient silk thread drawing" and "iron wire drawing" to depict the lightness of thin gauze and the magnificence of long dresses, and used "string drawing" to vaguely outline the graceful figure of a lady, making the characters both graceful and lively. The painting 'The Hairpin Flower Ladies' represents the highest level of ancient Chinese ladies' painting with exquisite painting language and unique artistic form. Its realistic style greatly influenced the ladies' painting world and Buddhist art in the late Tang Dynasty and even later dynasties.' The Hairpin Flower Ladies' painting also unintentionally reflects the glory of the Silk Road! In the painting, a lively and cute little dog with black and white stripes is the "exotic treasure" brought by the Silk Road - the Western Regions' "Furu Dog". Its hometown is the distant Byzantine Empire, known as "Da Qin" or "Fu Shu" in the Tang Dynasty. Paper has a lifespan of a thousand years, silk has a lifespan of eight hundred years. There are very few surviving paintings before the Song Dynasty. It is understood that the Palace Museum only has 3 Tang Dynasty paintings in its collection, while there are 30 Song Dynasty paintings. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that 'authentic Tang Dynasty paintings are national treasures'. The painting of a Lady with Hairpins and Flowers is the only recognized Tang Dynasty painting of a lady that has been handed down for generations, and its cultural value is extremely precious. The depiction of events can test the era. The painter used exquisite artistic imitation to open a window through the Tang Dynasty, allowing us to experience the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty from a painting perspective. (New Society)