He once painted "Viewing Plum Blossoms in the East Pavilion", "Tongyin Embroidery Picture", "Arhat Book", "Two Rabbits in the Indus", "
Forty Scenes of the Old Summer Palace" , there is something wonderful about Wu Dai catching the wind and Cao Yi coming out of the water. "Summer Resort" is one of his masterpieces. In the 42nd year of Kangxi's reign (1703), he imitated Qiu Ying's "Spring Dawn in the Han Palace" and in the third year of Yongzheng's reign (1725), he made the "Nine Thoughts" scroll. The Shandong Provincial Museum also has another piece of his, "Magna's Birthday Presentation". This "Shou Tu" should have been painted in the first month of the ninth year of Yongzheng's reign (1731).
Artistic Features:
Jiao Bingzhen’s disciple, good at painting figures and boundary paintings, especially ladies. He is good at painting and sketching, and he also writes while working. He decorates the house as finely as boundary paintings. The pen and ink are clean, the color is beautiful, elegant and elegant, and it is quite worthy of the master's inheritance. From Kangxi to the end of Qianlong, the painting style that combined Chinese and Western techniques was quite popular in the art academy and influenced folk art. There were many active promoters of this technique.
Quotation of works:
The handed down paintings enshrined by Leng Mei in the Qing Dynasty have gone through many vicissitudes of life and are rarely seen among the public today. Not long ago, one of his surviving large-scale color paintings, "Shou Tu", appeared at an auction in Tianjin for a high price of one million yuan. Everyone who saw it was amazed!
The "Shou Tu" is based on the "Magu" in ancient Chinese mythology, creating a beautiful and quiet human fairy. Ge Hong's "Biography of Immortals" says that she was from Jianchang and practiced Taoism at Guyu Mountain in the southeast of Mouzhou. During the reign of Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he was summoned by Wang Fangping and came to Cai Jingjia. He was eighteen or nineteen years old and could throw rice into beads. He said that he had seen the East China Sea turn into mulberry fields three times, and later generations used "the vicissitudes of life to mulberry fields" as a metaphor for the rapid changes in world affairs. It is said that on March 3rd, the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West, she made wine with Ganoderma lucidum on the bank of the Jiangzhu River to celebrate the Queen Mother's birthday. Therefore, in the old days, those who regarded girls as having longevity often painted images of Magu as gifts, which was called "Ma Gu's longevity offering".
Leng Mei's handed down silk vertical scroll "Shou Tu" is 122.5 cm in length and 62.5 cm in width. It is brightly colored and in perfect condition. The Magu fairy in the painting is slender and graceful, with high bun and kind eyes. Jade rings in earlobes, wearing a light green gown, carrying a round-bellied exquisite bamboo basket on the left arm, containing large blooming peonies and fairy grass wild flowers, a bunch of large and small gourds (or Ganoderma lucidum wine) tied to the side of the basket, and a green belt around the waist Also tied are four gourds and one Ganoderma lucidum. Gently pinch the rice grains with the two fingers of your left hand, and drop them into beads with your right palm. With fluttering clothes and fairy-like appearance, he went to Yingzhou to collect medicines and returned home with a full load; he wanted to offer his longevity. The brushwork is meticulous, the colors are elegant, and the shapes are vivid and expressive. It can be regarded as a representative work of Leng Mei's paintings of beautiful ladies. The inscription in regular script on the upper right side of the painting reads: "On the spring day of 1911, Leng Mei, the history of Kinmen painting, respectfully writes." Two seal seals below: "Chen Leng Mei" and "History of Kinmen painting".