A spring rain, apricot blossoms in Jiangnan. Southern Song Dynasty land tour of the "small building one night to listen to the spring rain, deep alley Ming Dynasty selling apricot blossoms." "The road has exhausted the beauty and grace of Jiangnan after the rain.
"The green poplar smoke is cold and light, and the red apricot branches are full of spring." Although some communities in Shanghai and other places are still closed due to the epidemic, the letter of flowers and the ease of life in spring cannot be sealed. At the time of the apricot blossoms, the series of columns "Forbidden City Flower Letters" launched by The Paper, Ancient Art, focuses on the apricot blossoms in ancient famous monuments: among them, both the Yuan Dynasty Qian Yuan's "pink palms can also cry, when the sunset is proud of the east wind." There is also a sentence from the early Ming Dynasty poet Chen Ji who inscribed apricot blossoms: "The rain in the sound of partridges is oblique, and thousands of flowers and flowers bloom all over." ”
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Song Mayuan , "Yiyun Xianxing"
Song Mayuan "Leaning on clouds and immortal apricots" Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Ma Yuanzi Qinshan, Shanxi Hezhong people, southern Song Dynasty Guangzong Ningzong two dynasties (1190-1224) painting academy to be edicted, with his father Shi Rong, grandfather Xingzu, Zi Lin are good at painting. Landscapes, characters, flowers and birds are exquisite, and landscapes are especially unique, with Xia Gui's name, then known as "Ma Xia".
This painting is painted with a red apricot branch, and the layout is simple. The folded branches are diagonally out from the left side, and forked up and down to the ends, twisting and stretching. Flowers or buds, or blooming and winning, turning over and leaning, blending into nature. Above there is an inscription from Empress Yang: "The wind is delicate, and the dew is red." ”
(Biography) Song Lin Chun "Apricot Blossom Spring Bird"
(Biography) Song Lin Chun "Apricot Blossom Spring Bird" Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
The original signature title "Lin Chun Apricot Blossom Spring Bird", painted also known as the Peacebird Suzaku Standing Apricot Blossom Branch, looking back and echoing with the viewer.
This painting is selected from the Song Dynasty's "Hebi Album", and the branch brushwork is close to Lin Chun's "Mountain (Wood Tea) Ji Xue", but the twist Teton is more obvious and the technique is more skilled. It is filled with layers of color, and has the charm of "mountain (wood tea) Ji xue". The white powder staining treatment of the flowers is similar to the Song "peach blossom" inferred by Ma Lin (about 1180-1256), but the "peach blossom" branch is more natural. The period of activity of Lin Chun and Ma Lin was successive, and the "Apricot Blossom Spring Bird" was slightly later than Ma Lin's typical exquisite Southern Song Dynasty paintings.
Song Zhao Chang , Sketching Apricot Blossoms
Song Zhao Chang, "Sketching Apricot Blossoms", collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Zhao Chang (c. late 10th century – early 11th century), a native of Chengdu, Sichuan, was a Chinese poet. He is good at painting flowers, often observing around the fence in the early morning at dawn, and modulating colors in his hands to depict them, calling himself "Sketching Zhao Chang".
This painting is selected from the "Song and Yuan Collection Painting" volume, only one branch of apricot blossoms is painted, and the flowers are flourishing, which looks full of spring. The pen and ink are exquisite and elegant, the petals are mainly dyed with white powder, and only the part of the flower bud is dyed with rouge, which has a sense of clarity; the calyx is dyed with rouge, the color is rich, and the two phases are set off, adding a feminine.
Song Qianxuan "Painted Goose" axis
Song Qianxuan "Painted Goose" Axis Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Qian Xuan (1239-1299), a famous painter in the late Song and early Yuan dynasties, was collectively known as "Wuxing Bajun" together with Zhao Mengfu and others. The characters Shunju, Yutan, Xunfeng, Xiachuan Weng, alias Qingfu Old Man, Chuan Weng, Xi Lazy Weng, etc., were from Huzhou (present-day Wuxing, Zhejiang).
The Southern Song Dynasty Jingding three years of township tribute to the soldiers, into the Yuan Bushi. Gong poems, good calligraphy and painting. The painting is extremely mixed: the landscape is studied by Zhao Lingyong; the characters are studied by Li Gonglin; the flower and bird teachers are Zhao Chang; and the green landscape teacher Isaac Zhao Boju. The characters and paintings were praised at that time. Inheriting the literati painting theory of Su Shi and others, advocating morale theory, and advocating the painting of the Jia family. He advocated the "morale" in painting, and inscribed poems or words on the paintings, which sprouted the distinctive characteristics of literati paintings that closely integrated poetry, books and paintings.
Song Qianxuan "Painted Goose" axis (partial) Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
This painting has money to choose from the title: "Pink-clad Palms can cry again, when the sunset is triumphant." I have no intention of eating cold food, and I must stay with you. Wu Xingqian chose Shunju. ”
(Biography) Yuanren "Apricot Goose Diagram" axis
(Biography) Yuan Ren "Apricot Goose Diagram" Axis Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
(Biography) Yuan Ren "Apricot Goose Diagram" Axis (Partial) Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
This painting is unnamed, and the old legend is the work of the Yuanren. Depicts two geese on the waterfront, next to two willow and apricot trees, flying swallows shuttle between the willow leaves, and a few apricot blossoms are obliquely under the shade of the willow. From the perspective of the content and layout of the painting, it is like the composition of the large flower and bird painting of the Ming Courtyard body, painting the pattern of willow stems, with the brush meaning of imitating Lü Ji, and painting geese is like Lin Liang's fun in writing birds, which should be a combination of Lin Liang and Lü Ji's influence.
Yuan Shangqi "Apricot Rain Bath Bird Diagram" axis
Shang Qi, a painter of the Yuan Dynasty, was a native of Jiyin, Caozhou (present-day Heze, Shandong). Father Shang Ting (1209-1288), the character Meng Qing, the number Zuo Shan, was a famous minister in the early Yuan Dynasty. Shang Qi is good at painting landscapes, patriarchal Song Dynasty Li Cheng, Guo Xi a vein, pen and ink handsome, but also high interest, shifa ancient people also learn the fa creation, with personal feelings into the painting, reputation in the time, has a certain influence on the late Yuan Dynasty painters.
This painting has the inscription of the late Yuan and early Ming dynasty poet Chen Ji cursive: "The rain in the sound of partridges is oblique, and thousands of flowers and flowers bloom all over." A picture of spring light is infinite, and the clear light is full of paper and flowing. Chen Ji. ”
Ming Lu Ji "Apricot Blossom Peacock" axis
Ming Luji "Apricot Blossom Peacock" Axis Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Lü Ji (1439–1505), a native of Yinxian County (present-day Ningbo), Zhejiang. The word Tingzhen, the trumpet Leyu, a piece of music fishing. Hongzhi (1488-1505), who was in the Renzhi Hall and commanded by Guan zhijinyi, was a representative painter of the Ming Dynasty, along with Bian Jingzhao and Lin Liang. Lü Ji's painting style can be divided into two categories, one is based on ink painting with slight pastels, and the pen is more luxurious, and the other is rich in color, with harmony and craftsmanship, with a rich court decoration interest. The direct reason for the transformation of his painting style from ink pastel painting to gongbi recolor color painting is to adapt to the different tastes of different emperors, specifically that the appreciation taste of the Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youfan is different from that of his father, the Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen, which causes Lü Jiduo to paint phoenixes, pheasants, cranes, peacocks, mandarin ducks and the like, mixed with flowers, trees, grasses and stones, with vitality.
Ming Luji "Apricot Blossom Peacock" Axis (Partial) Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
This peony, peacock, and bird lord harmonic are high-ranking officials and symbols of wealth. The overall style of the painting, such as in the royal garden, apricot blossoms and peonies, Yan red and pink and white, a spring joy. Painting method apricot wreath petals, peacock feathers, with the pen calm and seiko, the use of green lead powder, but also to get rid of the fire, to get the quiet Mu method, the tree stone wrinkle is still the nature of Lü's.
(Biography) Ming Lu Ji "Painting Flowers and Feathers" axis
(Biography) Ming Lu Ji "Painting Flowers and Feathers" Axis Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
In the painting, the apricot willows sway in the wind, and the starlings and mountain birds shuttle through them; the fish in the middle of the stream are flocked, and the mandarin ducks on the shore are two pairs, which is the spring warm blossom season, and the scenery is pleasant.
(Biography) Ming Lu Ji "Painting Flowers and Feathers" Axis (Partial) Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
This painting has no painter's print, and judging by its composition and brushwork, it is quite the spiritual outlook of Lü Ji, and it should be a work that inherits Lü's painting style.
Ming Ren "Painting Flowers and Birds" axis
Ming Ren "Painting Flowers and Birds" Axis Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Ming Ren "Painting Flowers and Birds" Axis (Partial) Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
The willow trees on the lakeside tower, the apricot blossoms bloom, the flying swallows shuttle between the willows, the emeralds stop the apricot branches, and the blasphemy (Wen Jie) or stand or swim, forming a picture of a rich and interesting spring scene. This spring scene of willow swallows, apricot blossoms, and waterfowl is commonly found in the court flower and bird paintings of the Lü Ji school. This painting willow stone and feather bird also shows the Lü Ji school of painting.
Ming Shen Zhou Xinglin Library axis
Ming Shen Zhou Xinglin Library Axis Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Wu Jun's second son, Ge Xingjian, was ill when he was swaddled, and the physician Chen Gongshang cured him. Ge Yin asked Shen Zhou to make a map of the Xinglin Library, and Xu Yuanzuo, the head of the military department, thanked him. Xu Fu was fifteen years old when Shen Was fifteen years old.
Ming Shen Zhou Xinglin Library Axis (Partial) Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
This painting has several rooms in the apricot forest, one person sits in the open hall and reads quietly, and the doctor Chen Gongshangye is written. The guest came from outside the bridge, went around the wall and asked, covering the patient's seeker. The painting method of mountain trees is very close to the landscape painted by Ji Zhi when he was fifty years old, and the brushwork is familiar, but it is more vigorous. Immortal Chuanyun: "Dong Feng lives in Lushan mountain and treats people's diseases." The heavy ones plant five apricots, and the light one plants, and the Dongxian apricot forest is called Dongxian Apricot Forest." Xinglin Book House, cover taken from this.
Xu Yuan's poem is titled: "Fang Chun Ri's Xuan Yan Xi, The Bright Beauty of the Apricot Forest." Qi Gu is proud of Song Yun Xi, and xiang is more than Jia Lan Hui".
Ming Shen Zhou "Apricot Blossom Diagram" axis
Ming Shen Zhou "Apricot Blossom Diagram" Axis Collection of the Palace Museum
Ming Shen Zhou "Apricot Blossom Diagram" Axis (Partial) Collection of the Palace Museum
In the painting, the apricot blossoms are flourishing, each with its own posture, the branches are old knots, the pen and ink are thick, and the self-title is: "Bu Nephew Jian Jing is studious, the great-grandson of Mr. Guan'an, who is known as the first period of the family, and the nongzhi family is the first." Taste the katsura branch he qi qiuwei, hereby rewrite an apricot book to send, so that the completion of the an aftermath of the cause also. Close to Er, this year The name of the family is Xi'er. The apricot blossom used to be a complete nunnery species, and it is also seen that the spring wind is a descendant. From this, it can be seen that this scroll was painted by Liu Budenke, the great-grandson of his teacher Liu Jue (劉珏).
Ming Wen Zhengming "Red Apricot Lake Stone Map" fan page
Ming Wen Zhengming "Red Apricot Lake Stone Map" Fan page Collection of the Palace Museum
This is a painting sent by Wen Zhengming to his official friend. The picture depicts a small scene of Wrinkled, Leaky, Transparent, and Thin Taihu Stone and a small scene of almond trees with a delicate posture. Wen Zhengming is famous for his landscape paintings, occasionally painting figures and orchid bamboo, and paintings with the theme of almond trees are only one fan painting, which is very rare. The layout of this figure is ingenious, the stone and the tree are one left and one right, in a confrontational trend, and the stone supports the softness of the tree with its solid texture, adding to the rigid and soft beauty of the painting. The whole painting exudes the elegant atmosphere of literati painting between the smooth and skillful brush and ink.
The fan page has a self-title: "In March, the rain is dry, and the spring color is very spring in Chang'an." The incense dust belongs to the red cloud of the road, and it is always waiting for Xian Lang to look at it immediately. Small poems and paintings are given to make up for the study of Han. Ding Youla Moon is both looking. Signify. "Ding You" was the sixteenth year of Ming Jiajing (1537), and Wen Zhengming was 68 years old at the time.
Ming Tang Yin "Apricot Blossom" axis
Ming Tang Yin", "Apricot Blossom" Axis, Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Tang Yin (1470-1523), a native of Wu County, Jiangsu Province, was a chinese poet. Gifted and talented, with a dashing and uninhibited personality, he claims to be the first talent in Jiangnan. Landscapes, figures, flowers and birds are all exquisite, and the painter Zhou Chen has the reputation of blue.
Ming Tang Yin "Apricot Blossom" Axis (Partial) Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
The picture depicts a spring apricot plant, stretching from the left side of the frame to the top of the ancient. The dry is first hooked, then rubbed, and the branches are mostly written in thick ink. Full of trees and flowers, without fat powder, to go to the vulgar atmosphere. The flowers are made of thick and light ink dots, and the flowers are complex and complex, which increases the change of pen tone.
Tang Yinxing's book is self-titled: "Xinxia steaming tree Xiao Guangnong." Mid-February. Xiangxue is a short spring dream. The people of tianya are in a hurry. Wu County Tang Yin. ”
Ming Chen Chun 《画花 album 〈Apricot Blossom》》
Ming Chen Chun ,"Painting Flower Album "Apricot Blossoms"" collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Chen Chun (1482-1539) was a native of Changzhou (present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu). Character Road Fu, followed by character lines, more characters Fufu, number Baiyang, also known as Baiyang Shanren. Some of his works, which are simple and simple, can be seen under the influence of Shen Zhou's painting method, and the style and brush can be seen from his existing works, which can be opened and received. In the history of painting, Chen Chun and Xu Wei are called "Baiyang and Qingteng", and Chen Chun's paintings belong to the literati Junya All the Way, that is, the "Baiyang" school of painters.
This painting has the Qing Gaozong inscription: "Half is with buds and half is open." The wind and currents are very special. Not out of the young leaves. I want to recognize Mo Mei in the picture. ”
Ming Liu Mai "Xinglin Chunyan" axis
Ming Liu Mai "Xinglin Chunyan" Axis Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Ming Liu Mai "Xinglin Chunyan" axis (partial) Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Liu Mai, a native of Jinling (present-day Nanjing) in the late Ming Dynasty, was known in history as "Gonghuacao", and the works and materials of the painter are very few. The painter inscribed himself: "In the first year of the Apocalypse (1621), leap February was written in the Si Xin Guan. Liu Mai. ”
Ming Qiangu "Painted Apricot Blossom Magpie" axis
Ming Qiangu "Painting apricot blossom magpies" axis Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Qian Gu (1508-1572), a native of Changzhou (Wu County, Jiangsu), was a self-proclaimed chime. Less lonely and out of school, strong, You Wen zhengming under the door, began to read it. With the rest of the force, dot dye ink, landscape and orchid bamboo and wonderful. This apricot blossom blooms in spring, and a magpie flies from the branch, which means that the spring news is good. The brush of painting flowers and writing birds is elegant and thick, and has the remains of Shen Zhou and Wen Zhengming.
Qing Yun Shouping 《Painting Flower Album 〈Apricot Blossom》》
Qing Yun Shouping,"Painting Flower Album "Apricot Blossoms", Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Yun Shouping (1633-1690), first name Ge, character Shouping, character line, also character Zheng shu, alias Nantian, No. 1 Baiyun Waishi, Yunxi History, Dongyuan Ke, Chao FengKe, Higashino Relic, Caoyisheng, Yokoyama Woodsman. Jiangsu Wujin people. In his early years, Yun Shouping learned to paint landscapes from his uncle Yun Xiang (a landscape painter of the late Ming Dynasty), taking Wang Meng, Huang Gongwang, and Ni Zhan from the Fayuan Dynasty, and going back to Dong Yuan and Ju Ran. After middle age, he turned to painting flowers and birds and insects. He drew creative experience from the works of Shen Zhou, Sun Long and others in the Ming Dynasty, and then referred to the literature of painting history to create a boneless flower painting method that "imitated Xu Chongsi of the Northern Song Dynasty", and even took Xu Chongsi as the sect, taking the strengths of each family and greatly developing boneless painting. The flowers painted are rarely outlined, colored and rendered in ink, with subtle brushes, neatly painted, bright and concise, and full of fun. Yun Shouping's artistic creation has his own original artistic insights, and he declared in "Nantian Painting": "When laymen talk about painting, it is easy to set colors, and it is extremely difficult to render." He also said: "The Song Fa portrays without change, because of the portrayal, the magic is in the reference and there is no obstacle, and the practitioners regard it as qi and two, and the world is confused..." This is to say that the Song painting is neat and tidy, the yuan painting is freehand, and the two should be referred to each other in order to be wonderful.
This painting has the painter's self-title: "Picking incense on the rain is like silk." Yamaji Haruka is unknown. Fog filled the empty rocks with a hundred tongues. The spring breeze has passed the apricot blossom branches. Tang Xieyuan has folded branches of red apricots. Airy fluttering. It is beyond the imagination of time. ”
The artist's book is self-titled: "Tang Xieyuan folded branches and red apricots have a wind and clouds." Yu saw it at the Golden Red Goose House. Cause Pro. Minamida Shouhei"
Qing Zou Yigui "Apricot Blossom Qing Gaozong Imperial Title" axis
Qing Zou Yigui "Apricot Blossom Qing Gaozong Imperial Inscription" Axis Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
Zou Yigui, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. The character Yuan, the number of The Hill, also known as Erzhi, Rangqing, and Xiangsenzi. Sejong Yongzheng was a fifth-year (1727) jinshi (進士), an official to the rebbe attendant. Shan Gong pen flowers, set the color is clear, for the early Qing Dynasty court flower painter. He is the author of "Little Mountain Painting Notation" and "Little Mountain Poetry Collection". This painting is set with a colored apricot blossom. The old dry coil, after dividing in two, is then straight and upward, and the branches are covered with new buds. The composition of this painting is very simple, the painter depicts finely, the old bark and the tree tumors of different sizes are expressed with ochre ink lines, and the apricot blossoms dyed with magenta dots are proud and lovely. In addition to the famous model, the painter also has a long title. In addition, the entire canvas is full of fourteen lines of poetry, which are the inscriptions of the Qianlong Emperor (1711-1799) after ordering Zou Yigui to paint this Dongzhuan apricot blossom in the twentieth year of Qianlong (1755), and successively appreciating the paintings for thirty-seven years (1755-1791). In the poems, there is an appreciation for the spirit of the painter's sketching, and there is also a remembrance of the painter after his death. These Inscriptions of Qianlong and the Seal of the Qing Dynasty have become clear evidence that Chinese paintings and calligraphy have been collected by the Qing Dynasty Imperial Palace.
(Some of the content of this article is compiled from the relevant materials of the National Palace Museum and the National Palace Museum in Taipei.) ）