The annunciation diagram of the master of Chinese painting, may you be happy on the top of your eyebrows

Southern Song Dynasty Anon. "Peach Branch PerchIng Finch Diagram" Color on silk 23.8 × 24.5 cm

"The magpie chirps, and the clouds announce the good news." Legend has it that magpies can convey unknown good news, so folk use magpies as an auspicious bird of annunciation.

Southern Song Dynasty Anon. "Plum Bird Picture Page"

The custom of "painting magpies and magpies" is also very popular, and ancient literati and painters put magpies into paintings, leaving behind annunciation pictures in various forms and auspicious meanings. For example, two magpies facing each other are called "happy to meet"; adding an ancient coin to the two magpies is called "joy in front of the eyes"; a badger and a magpie looking at each other under a tree is called "happy heaven and happy land".

Liu Kuiling 《Magpie Dengmei》

The most widely circulated is the Annunciation Chart of Quedeng Meizhi. In traditional Chinese customs, the plum blossoms before a hundred flowers are the flowers of primrose. The magpie stands on the branch of the plum blossom, describing the happy event at the door, lucky and auspicious, so people also mean that the magpie standing on the plum branch means "happy on the eyebrow".

Xu Beihong,"Happy on the Eyebrows"

Qi Baishi "Joy in the Brow"

The New Year is coming, I offer the annunciation map of the master of Chinese painting, hoping that the magpie in the master's pen can bring luck and joy to the officials who appreciate the paintings, and I hope that everyone's life will be happy every day!

Song Anon. "Plum Bamboo Double Magpie Diagram" page, silk, color, length 26cm, horizontal 26.5cm

Song Cui Bai "Double Happiness Map" Height 193.7 cm Width 103.4 cm Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei

Yuan Wang Yuan The Long Volume of the Annunciation of the Plum Sparrow

Yuan Wang Yuan, "Years of An Xi Tu"

Ming Bian Jingzhao 《Flower and Bamboo Gathering Birds》

Ming Bian Jingzhao "Spring Flower Three Joys"

Qing Xu Wei 《Apricot Blossom Double Magpie》

Qing Zhang Naiqi "Magpie Three Friends"

Xu Wenxi Snow Cold Annunciation Chart

Yu Fei Min Magnolia Annunciation Chart

Xie Zhiliu's "Peach Blossom Magpie Diagram"

Xu Beihong,"Annunciation Diagram", the basis of color, lens 33×132cm

Xu Beihong's "Four Happy Pictures"

Xu Beihong, "Magpie Facing the Wind"

Xu Beihong, "Magpie Dengzhi"

Qi Baishi Yuan Daily Happy Picture

Qi Baishi Red plum annunciation

Qi Baishi "Great Joy Sturdy"

Wang Xuetao "Magpie"

Tian Shiguang "Magpie"

Tian Shiguang,"Red Leaf Magpie"

Tian Shiguang "Magpie Dengmei"

Tian Shiguang", "Magpie Primrose"

Sun Qifeng's "Annunciation Map"

The Chinese painting magpies written by the masters use simple and condensed compositions to outline the branches in the thickness of the ink, and show the profound pen power between the turns. The works are dense and elegant, the atmosphere is flexible, and the flowers and birds are full of vitality, implying the painter's vision and expectation of beautiful things, and pinning on the painter's heartfelt blessings to the world!