Category jade carving
Ching Dynasty
Cultural relics originally belonged to the Qing Palace.
These cultural relics are now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
brief introduction
Length: 18.7 cm, width: 9. 1 cm, thickness: 5.07 cm.
This work which is almost 100% similar to real Chinese cabbage is made of jade. The intimate theme, white vegetable body and green leaves all make people feel familiar and close. Don't forget to look at the two insects that stay on the vegetable leaves. They are katydids and locusts, which means many children.
This work was originally placed in Yonghe Palace in the Forbidden City, which was the bedroom of the concubine Jin Fei of Emperor Guangxu. Therefore, some people speculate that this device is Jin Fei's dowry to symbolize her innocence and many children.
Although the material of jadeite and the shape of cabbage were popular in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the themes of cabbage and grass insects were common in professional grass insect paintings from Yuan Dynasty to early Ming Dynasty, and they have always been auspicious themes welcomed by the people. In addition, cabbage vegetables were also used by Du Fu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, as a metaphor for the harsh political environment and the lack of talents. In the tradition of literati painting, they are also cited as the theme of painting to express similar feelings and secretly warn politicians of fatuity.
In an imperial poem entitled Tiaohe Jade Carving Frost Inserting Pine Flowers, written in the 40th year of Qianlong (1775), Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, as an emperor, was wary of the tradition that garden officials in Du Fu's poems did not know that fine dishes were compared to artistic admonitions. There is a cloud in the poem: "hetian produces jade, so he joined hands and Wujiang made the ingredients and made the utensils properly." Antique cooking is a new thing, but what if the atmosphere is enhanced? The leaves are wrapped in roots and the heart is empty. Elegant flower arrangement is a cauliflower. Peach and Sydney are shy and graceful. People don't have such beautiful colors, art exhorts or smiles at me. "
However, I believe that both artisans in court workshops and jade craftsmen who make jadeite cabbage are just creative and skilled, and they are created to cater to the preferences of sponsors. However, because no relevant information was left, it left more imagination space for the audience.
Quick Snow Clear Post is the only calligraphy masterpiece of Wang Xizhi, a "book saint".
Explanation: Xi's first nod. It's sunny when it snows, so I want to be fine. It didn't work. Strength is different. Wang Xizhi nodded his head. Zhang Hou in the mountains.
Longitudinal 23cm；; Horizontal 14.8cm, running script with four lines and 28 words. "Sunny Post in the Snow" is a letter, the content of which is that the author wrote down his happy mood and greetings to his loved ones in the snowy Chu Qing.
Many people think that Kuai Xue Qing Tie is another masterpiece of his running script after The First Running Script in the World and Preface to Lanting. Zhao Mengfu, Liu Geng, Hududar, Liu Chengxi, Wang, Wen Zhenheng, Liang and others all expressed their admiration and admiration. Gan Long loved calligraphy all his life, and deliberately collected the masterpieces of famous calligraphers in the past dynasties, and integrated them into one, chasing the two kings to take their essence. He cherishes "sunny hills in heavy snow" very much. In front of the post, he wrote eight small words "A Chinese Odyssey, all ancient and modern are fresh" and four big words "Fantastic". Then he said, "Yue Long is in heaven, and the tiger lies in the phoenix pavilion." This 28-word book is called Pear and Bamboo at the Age of 28. He put this post, Wang Xun's Yuan Bo Post and Wang Xianzhi's Mid-Autumn Post in the West Warm Pavilion of Yangxintang, and made a "Sanxi Hall" imperial book plaque, which was regarded as a rare treasure. In the 12th year of Qianlong reign, 134 original calligraphers, including Sanxi, were selected from the imperial palace and inscribed with inscriptions, named "Sanxitang Fa Tie". "Reading Gu Lou" was built in Beihai, Xiyuan. The stone carvings on it are embedded in the wall of the building, and rubbings are circulated to show the model of Linchi. The original Sanxi is still hidden in Sanxi Hall and Yangxin Hall.
According to many inscriptions, seals and related books on the attached pages of this post, it is found that "A Clear Post on the Snow" was inscribed by Song Xuanhe's inner government Zhao Mengfu, Song Mi Fei's "Bao Jin Zhai" and Yuan Dynasty's court. It was owned by Zhu Hewang in the Ming Dynasty and by Zhu Hewang in the Qing Dynasty. In the 18th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (A.D. 1679), he entered the palace. 1949, when the Kuomintang army was defeated in the civil war and retreated to Taiwan Province province, it took away a lot of gold and 2,972 boxes of exquisite cultural relics. However, this part is the best among the cultural relics of the Palace Museum, such as exquisite handicrafts, jade cabbage, jade incense burner, jade lotus leaf-shaped brushing and so on. , including Wang Xizhi's "Sunny Post on the Fast Snow". Today, "Three Wishes", "Yuan Bo Tie" and "Mid-Autumn Festival Tie" exist in Beijing Palace Museum, but "One Wish" and "Sunny Tie in Heavy Snow" are treasured in Taipei Palace Museum. China people deeply regret that the "three wishes" have not been realized.
Emperor Qianlong loved Wang Xizhi's calligraphy. After he got the original works of Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi and Wang Xizhi, he set up a small room in hall of mental cultivation Xinuange, dedicated to hall of mental cultivation, and named it "Sanxi Hall".
Wang Xizhi's "Quick Snow Clear Post" is regarded as the first of the "Three Wishes" by Emperor Qianlong, and is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. The Mid-Autumn Festival Post is said to have been written by Wang Xianzhi, and the word "Bao" on the post was personally inscribed by Emperor Qianlong. However, according to experts' appraisal, the Mid-Autumn Festival Post and Sunny Day Post in Fast Snow are all copied by later generations, and only Wang Xun's Yuan Bo Post is the original.
Emperors of Past Dynasties is the representative work of China Tang Dynasty painter Yan's figure painting. Also known as the map of the ancient emperor. This picture shows silk in color, with a vertical length of 5 1.3 cm and a horizontal length of 53 1 cm. At present, the Boston Museum of Art has a full volume of portraits of thirteen emperors from the Han Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty. From the perspective of portrait, although there is still a tendency of stylization, it shows great progress in characterization, unconventional and distinctive. The size of the characters in the painting is handled according to the hierarchical feudal ethics. The maps of emperors in past dynasties were all influenced by Buddhist art, with heavy colors and dizzy clothes. The vertical color of the ancient king's Tang silk is 5 1.3 cm.
The Map of Ancient Emperors or the Map of Emperors in Past Dynasties depicts thirteen emperors: Liu Fuling, former Emperor Zhaodi of Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, Cao Pi, Wu Zhu Sun Quan, Shu Bei, Emperor Jinwu, Chen Bozong, Chen Houzhu Chen, Yu Wenyong, Emperor Wendi of Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yang Guang and Emperor Yangdi. Every emperor has a list of books, and some also record his reign year and attitude towards Buddhism and Taoism. The painter not only pays attention to depicting the same characteristics and temperament of feudal rulers, but also successfully shapes typical historical figures with outstanding personalities according to the political actions and different circumstances and destinies of each emperor, which reflects the author's evaluation of these emperors. This book selected and printed a portrait of Sima Yan, the Emperor of Jin Dynasty.
This painting depicts the images of thirteen emperors from the Western Han Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty. The painter tried to reveal the different inner world and personality characteristics of emperors by depicting their different facial expressions. Those monarchs who started the dynasty and established generations all reflected the "king temperament" and "Wei Li Fan Yi" in the painter's pen; Those who are fatuous or submissive are narrow-minded and corrupt. The painter's attitude of judging history, praising and criticizing characters, promoting good and restraining evil with a brush is very clear. The figures are accurate in modeling, stretched with pens and dignified in color. This painting was collected by imperial governments or individuals in the past dynasties, and fell into the hands of Liang Hongzhi in the late Qing Dynasty and flowed abroad.
The nameless title of the work has long been circulated as Yan's works, mainly based on the inscription and postscript of the Song Dynasty. According to historical records, the silk books circulating now were copied and colored by Bao Yang in Song Dynasty on the basis of white linen paper and Tang paintings.
Yan, born in an unknown year and died in 673, was a painter in the Tang Dynasty. Yongzheng was born in ten thousand years (now Xi 'an, Shaanxi), and his ancestral home is Leshan (now Helinger, Inner Mongolia). He is good at painting, craft and architecture with his father Pi and his younger brother Lide. At the beginning of Emperor Gaozong's accession to the throne, his younger brother died and became the Minister of Industry. In the first year of General Chapter (668), he was promoted to the right, and in the first year of Xianheng (670), he was appointed as the secretary of the Central Secretariat. Calligraphy, good at drawing figures, chariots and horses, Taiwan Pavilion. It has the reputation of "deification of painters" and "the best in ancient and modern times". Handed down from ancient times, the works include Travel Map, Kings Map, chain mail Map, etc.
Because the six horses in Zhaoling are maps rather than original stone carvings, there is not much money.