Grooming was an indispensable step in the daily life of women in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Before starting a family, women often arranged their appearance in the boudoir courtyard, and this emphasis on the beauty of appearance also conveyed their exquisite aesthetics of life. When grooming, they decorate their hair buns with gorgeous ornaments, and the "hairpin flower", one of the headdresses, has become a more common element in the paintings of women in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Li Yu, a literary scholar and dramatist in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, once said: "If the rich and noble family is a beautiful person, it should visit famous flowers and plant them in The Interior, so that they can kiss each other day and night, and the glory of the pearls surrounded by greenery is not enough." Rise up in the morning, listen to its own choice, like red is red, love purple is purple, wear it as you like. ”
The scene of the woman's hairpin flower looking in the mirror provided a lot of creative inspiration for the painters at that time.
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Ming Chen Hongshou Xiao makeup chart axis
The picture of the palace concubine standing in the middle, next to the maid holding a lotus bronze mirror, the guard holding a spear bent down and standing, from the size and position of the three figures drawn, you can know which of their status is more important. The palace concubine has a plump posture, plump cheeks and curved neck, a flowing gauze skirt, and a light sideburn in front of the mirror. The pen is colored, the picture does not have a background, highlighting the characters, and there is a sense of imminent coming out.
Inscription: "Old Lotus Hongshou was written in the Peach Blossom Book Xuan of Shangyi Garden." ”
Seal: "Chen Hongshou Seal" Bai Wen, "Zhanghou" Zhu Wen, "Haichang Qianjing Tangzang" Zhu Wen Three Seals.
Chen Hongshou (1599-1652), the Marquis of Zhang, the old lotus, was a native of Zhuji (present-day Shaoxing), Zhejiang. Good at painting flowers, birds, landscapes, the characters are particularly exquisite, the painted ladies are exaggerated and deformed, the cheeks are slender, the posture is gentle, the grace is gorgeous, and the beauty is not vulgar.
Ming Tang Yin model hairpin flower lady chart axis
In the pictured courtyard, the plane trees are lush and the lake is exquisite. The girl's gauze skirt is dragging on the ground, the black bun is like a cloud, and the face is like a peach blossom. Sit on the curved rail, holding a fan in your right hand and a flower in your left hand to insert into your bun. Slender and slender, graceful posture. This picture is the work of the Ming Dynasty imitating Tang Yin.
Inscription: "Six is written by Tang Yin, a layman." ”
Plutonium seal: "Tang Yin" Bai Wen, "Bo Hu" Zhu Wen second seal.
Tang Yin (1470-1523), also known as Bohu, was a native of Wu County,Jiangsu (present-day Suzhou). In the eleventh year of Koji (1498), he won the first place, Gongshi Shanshu, good at painting, and the women he painted were gorgeous and beautiful.
The so-called hairpin flowers are either picking a few of the most suitable flowers in the flower trees in the garden garden, or making flowers in the style of silk satin, wearing them in a bun and decorating their own green silk. The beauty of the hairpin flowers, the mirror self-illumination, and the spring scenery of the garden, it seems that the spring color is boundless.
But perhaps it is the spring color that is too good, and sometimes it will make the boudoir woman have a sense of fear of the rush of the years and the fading of the years.
Qing Jin Gui ke banana window to mirror diagram axis
Painted banana shade is thick, green grass fangfei. The young girl wore a long skirt with wide sleeves, sat alone in the round window, looked at herself in the mirror, and sighed that her face was easy to grow old and sad. The composition is simple and ingenious, the plantains and characters are drawn with a work pen, the pen is strong and strong, and the color is elegant.
Inscription: "Sleep up and sit in the banana window, shade thick green day." Ling Hua was idle, and Gu Ying was secretly pitiful. In August, Xiao Qin Jin Guike was inscribed at Xiaozhuli Hall. ”
Plutonium seal: "GuiKeyin" Zhu Wen, "Idle Writing Of The Twelve Lines of Gold" Zhu Wen Second Seal.
Jin Guike (born and died unknown), character Xiaoqin, Xiaoqin, trumpet Yinqiu, Xiaozhuliguan master, late Qing Dynasty Anhui Xiuning people. Good at painting, especially for women, and good at calligraphy and seal engraving.
Exhibition information
Exhibition Name: Green Sideburns Zhu Yan - Exhibition of Paintings on Women's Themes in the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Exhibition time: March 8, 2022 - June 8, 2022
Exhibition location: The second floor of the west of the old hall of the Anhui Museum
Organizer: Anhui Museum
Co-organizers: Anhui China Huizhou Culture Museum
Text: Zheng Yujie Li Yanhong
Video Producer: Zheng Yujie Zhang Hui
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