这里选登的三幅“童子拜佛”图,是盛唐、中唐时人绘于敦煌莫高窟第79窟、197窟之壁画中的图像,描绘童子拜佛、礼佛、敬佛的生动状态。画面上的这些童子,个个都胖乎乎,有的还赤裸着身体,憨态可掬,十分可爱。他们面对佛像,或站立作揖,或跪地作揖,或跪地磕头,做着各种拜佛的动作,显得很是虔诚。从美术史角度看,儿童形象被描绘得如此饱满、清晰、生动,这在唐代以前尚不多见。虽然早在北朝以来,儿童就出现在佛教故事画中,但画中儿童不仅人数少、图 Here are the three selected “boy worship Buddha,” the map is the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was painted in Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes Cave 79, Grottoes 197 Grottoes in the picture, depicting the boy worship Buddha, ceremony Buddha, worship Buddha vivid status. These boys on the screen, all chubby, and some are naked, naive, very cute. They face the statues of Buddha, stand on their knees, bow on their knees, kowtow on their knees, and perform prayers in all sorts of ways. From the perspective of art history, children’s images are so full, vivid and vivid that they were not seen until the Tang Dynasty. Although children appeared in Buddhist story painting since the Northern Dynasty, the number of children in the painting is not only small, but also the figure