Painting description
- Material: Oil painting
- Size: 80 cm x 120 cm
- Creation year: 2024
The symbol "transformation" is one of the features of the Nguyen Dynasty's architectural decoration used to transform plants, objects, and people into sacred images (four spirits). expressing the desire to convey the wishes of people, a dynasty, a feudal society: favorable rain - peaceful wind, peace - prosperity, ...
The dragon fish is a popular architectural decoration, symbolizing hard work to become talent and advancement; symbolizes the latent noble personality or towards a good outcome.
“In the sky, there is a petrified tree
Under the sea there are fish that turn into dragons.”
Appearing in most mausoleums, temples, etc., the image of the dragon fish is a decorative art with the harmony of the three religions of the same time: Buddha, Confucianism, Lao (due to the population including indigenous Cham people, later Vietnamese and Chinese immigrants) marks one of the features of this dynasty's art.
Today, when referring to the legend of the dragon fish, people will think of the Long Mon (dragon gate - a section of the Da River, Hoa Binh province) because here was born a precious fish, named Anh Vu, a species of fish overcome Vu gate in real life.