Southern Song Dynasty Anon. "Plum Bird Picture Page"
"The magpie chirps, and the clouds announce the good news." Legend has it that magpies can convey unknown good news, so magpies can announce good news. This concept has been popular in the folk as early as 2,000 years ago, and the folk use the magpie as a symbol of "auspiciousness" to give the meaning of festivity and good luck, thus deriving a long-standing magpie culture.
Southern Song Dynasty Anon. "Peach Branch PerchIng Finch Diagram" Color on silk 23.8 × 24.5 cm
The custom of painting Magpie Zhaoxi is also very popular, ancient literati and painters will magpie into painting, into poetry, leaving a variety of forms, auspicious meaning of humanistic paintings, such as two magpies face each other called "happy encounter"; double magpie plus an ancient coin called "joy in front of the eyes"; a badger and a magpie under the tree under the tree to look at each other called "happy heaven and happy land". The most widely circulated is the Que Deng Mei Branch Annunciation Chart, also known as "Happy Eyebrows".
The Grey Magpie in the Northern Song Dynasty Zhao Tuo's Sketch of Rare Birds
Magpies are a kind of cute and auspicious birds, and I hope that the master's pen can bring luck and joy to the officials who appreciate the paintings!
Song Cui Bai "Double Happiness Map" Height 193.7 cm Width 103.4 cm Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Song Anon. "Plum Bamboo Double Magpie Diagram" page, silk, color, length 26cm, horizontal 26.5cm
Yuan Wang Yuan The Long Volume of the Annunciation of the Plum Sparrow
Yuan Wang Yuan,"Years of Anxitu."
Ming Bian Jingzhao 《Flower and Bamboo Gathering Birds》
Ming Bian Jingzhao "Spring Flower Three Joys"
Ming Lu Ji "Eagle Magpie Diagram"
Ming Dynasty "Four Happy Pictures"
Ming Zhou's Crown "Four Hours of Flowers and Birds"
Qing Xu Wei 《Apricot Blossom Double Magpie》
Qing Wang Li "Peony Double Magpie"
Qing Zhang Naiqi "Magpie Three Friends"
Ren Bonian 'Magpie Ta Branch Diagram》
Liu Kuiling 《Magpie Dengmei》
Xie Zhiliu's "Peach Blossom Magpie Diagram"
Xu Beihong,"Annunciation Diagram", the basis of color, lens 33×132cm
Xu Beihong, "Magpie Dengzhi"
Xu Beihong's "Four Happy Pictures"
Xu Beihong, "Magpie Facing the Wind"
Qi Baishi "Magpie Climbing Branch"
Qi Baishi Chen Banding "Happy on the Eyebrows"
Zhang Daqian,"Magpie"
Yu Feimin's "Double Flying Magpie"
Wang Xuetao "Magpie"
Tian Shiguang,"Red Leaf Magpie"
Tian Shiguang "Magpie Plum Blossom"
Tian Shiguang "Magpie Dengmei"
Sun Qifeng"Magpie Dengmei"
Sun Qifeng's "Double Happiness Map"
Sun Qifeng's "Shiguo Magpie"