Xiangjiang Yuji map
Riverscape after Rain
"Xiangjiang Yuji Tu" is a painting by the Ming Dynasty painter Xia Jiao. Inscription and signature, two artist seals, one collector's seal, the "Ancient Scrolls" composed by Li Dai (1531-1607), Zhu Shilu (1539-1610), and Shen Zongqian (1736-1820), a total of nine seals.
This painting depicts a steep lake stone behind several poles of wind and bamboo beckoning in the wind, the branches and leaves are refreshing, funny and clever, and the painting is very suitable, vividly showing the posture of wind and bamboo fluttering and swaying. Ink bamboo with a pen, involved in calligraphy, bamboo leaves are like cursive, dots and strokes, with thick and light virtual reality of the ink color, showing the yin and yang opposite and the sense of space before and after jagged. Xia Yu painted bamboo almost no double brush, as the so-called: "Falling ink is." It's a coincidence. "This work is even more powerful.
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Xia 㫤 (同昶chang) (1388-1470), Ming Dynasty painter, character Zhongzhao, number of the resident, also known as Yufeng. People from Kunshan, Jiangsu Province. Due to the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Xia's father had to take the surname of "Zhu" with his uncle's family, so Xia Yi always took the surname Zhu, the name Chang, and then he played the "Fu Surname Shu" to restore his original surname Xia, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di saw that his name "Chang" was "Ri Bian Yong", and said, "The sun is beautiful, 'Day' can not be from the side, it is advisable to add 'Yong' on the side", so he changed his name to Xia, the word Zhongzhao. Zhang Dafu in the "Plum Blossom Caotang Collection": This text and the day are eternal, from the beginning of the Gong (Xia). In the thirteenth year of Yongle (1415), Jin shi Hanlin was made a Shujishi, to Yongle twenty years as a Zhongshu Sheren, and in the twenty-first year of Yongle, Yang Rong recommended him to enter the Wenyuan Pavilion. In the sixth year of Xuande (1431), because of his upright character, he became the chief of the Examination Department of the Bureaucracy.
In the Ming Dynasty, the official department was the first of the six departments, and there were four divisions under it. The Wenxuan Division and the Examination Gong Division under it are the most powerful places, and at this time, Xia Yu is only the main affairs of Zheng Liupin, but the real power cannot be underestimated. In the thirteenth year of orthodoxy (1448), he was promoted to prefect of Ruizhou. Four years later, he was promoted to Taichang Shaoqing (太常卿) in the first year of Tianshun (1457), when Xia Was seventy years old, but in this year he returned to his hometown and served in the imperial court for more than forty years. In his later years, he had contacts with Du Qiong, Liu Jue, Shen Zhou, Wu Kuan, etc. in Wudi and had literary activities. When painting bamboo, push the first, the name crown of the dynasty, chi overseas, there is "Xia Qing a bamboo, Xi Liang ten ingots of gold" reputation, and there is a common proverb cloud: "Lin Liang Plume Hair Xia Bamboo, Yue Zheng Grape Ji Li Ju." Zhang Ning's "Fang Zhou Collection" Volume V "Xia Zhongzhao Wanzhu Tu for Shizhi County Title" Yun: "Kunshan Old Immortals, the Qinghe River sprinkled without dust." Ordinary life is not enough to be rich, and the pen end is created to return to Yangchun", which not only shows the elegance and elegance of Xia Yu's bamboo style, but also shows the clarity and tranquility of his overall painting style.
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