Scroll of the First Snow of the River Journey, Painting by Zhao Gan of the Southern Tang Dynasty of the Five Dynasties, ink and color on silk (25.9x376.5 cm), annotated, Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
The volume of "The First Snow of the River Travel" was painted by Zhao Gan in the Southern Tang Dynasty of the Five Dynasties. The scroll depicts the life of the fishermen seen on the riverside in the south, when the snow is falling, and the harmony and diligence of the common people's activities can still be seen in the gloom. The whole canvas is stained with light ink and stained on the silk floor, and then sprinkled with white powder for snow.
The frontispiece has an inscription by Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty: The first snow of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the early snow of the river, the state of Zhao Gan, a student of the Southern Tang Dynasty. This volume is now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
"The First Snow of the River" is a painting that pays equal attention to landscape figures, and it is also a very early silk landscape painting in the hand-me-down works.
The painter Zhao Gan, a native of Jiangning, Jiangsu, was a student of the Academy of Painting during the reign of Empress Li of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Since he was a child, he grew up in the south of the Yangtze River, so most of the landscapes he painted are Jiangnan scenes, and he is especially good at scenery.
In this handscroll, the artist uses the curved Huanglu embankment to construct a vast river surface. In the painting, the cold and snow are falling, and the fishermen by the river continue to work against the wind and snow in order to make a living, and they are extremely hard. The tourists walking on the shore also braved the cold and snow to hurry, and the people and donkeys all carried a face that was difficult to walk in the bitter cold, and the painter reflected the freezing river sky in the painting through the expressions of the characters.
The whole canvas is stained with light ink and stained on the silk floor, and then sprinkled with white powder for snow. The dead trees in the cold forest are all used with a center round pen, which is very powerful. The trunk of the tree is dyed with a dry pen, and it has its own yin and yang to the back. The reed flowers painted are wrapped in ochre ink, and they are made of one stroke, which is very creative. The hillocks and the foot of the slope are also painted in pieces of light ink without wrinkles. There are gold, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasty collection seals on this plate, which proves that this volume is a fine product that has been handed down.
It is said that Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, inscribed Zhao Gan, the first snow of the river, and the Qianlong Ba
Wu head Chu tail Cangjiang Qing. Yuan Ming tried to make Fei Chuxia. The donkey's back is cold and the wind beats the hat. Jiangxin Yule Boat Chongling. The reed waist has been folded and the beard has been whitened. The hill is blue at first glance. Or see the sand and the net. There are still ships that have a problem with it. The husband is not afraid. Food and clothing have been hard to operate.
Ice fish and frozen crab into the live. Who's sheep paste with soft cooking. Creation is not complete. It's emotional. Yao Ji Jin recognises foreign objects. The sound of the Northern Song Dynasty was heard. Kui Zhang, bachelor Dan Qiu Sheng. A momentary French eye boutique review. The candle shines brightly. When painting, I don't know how to freeze it. Qianlong Imperial Title. Nourishing the heart of the temple Sanxi Hall to play the authentic handiwork
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In the painting, there are various details about the life of the fishermen between the banks of the Shuizhu River, from rowing, Zhang Gu, and even cooking. The vivid expressions of the figures, and even their shrinking postures, add to the imagination of the situation in the painting.
The depiction of the rocky surface in the painting is a kind of dyeing and halo treatment that does not have a specific method, which is similar to the rocky surface in the "Deep Mountain Chess Club" unearthed from the Liao tomb of the Five Dynasties, which should be a style characteristic before the Northern Song Dynasty. In this way, there is no specific method, and there is a similar phenomenon in the description of the texture of the tree, and even the treatment of the tail end of the branch does not have the influence of the claw-like branch of the Northern Song Dynasty Li Guo crab. These tree methods and the rustic techniques of rocks can show that this work was completed no later than the Northern Song Dynasty.
In terms of the title of the painting, the painting depicts the hard work of fishermen in the cold and early snow, which is a kind of genre painting, which is used to present the social feelings. At the end of this painting, there is a record of the joint submission of eleven ministers of the Kuizhang Pavilion in the second year of the Tianli calendar (1329), which is the work submitted by the ministers for the emperor's governance after the establishment of the Kuizhang Pavilion by Yuan Wenzong.
The painting academies of the Southern Tang Dynasty and Later Shu were the important towns of the painting world before the establishment of the Song Dynasty, and they were also the main force of court painting in the Northern Song Dynasty. Zhao Gan served in the Southern Tang Dynasty Painting Academy, and the inscription at the beginning of this volume is said to be the handwriting of the later master Li Yu, which increases the importance of this work in the history of painting. The activities of fishermen seen on a winter trip to the riverside are the subject of this volume. This was originally a "genre painting" used by the emperor to observe the folk customs, but Zhao Gan deliberately depicted various fisherman shapes and fishing methods in the painting, and used details such as a boy with a shrunken body and a donkey walking against the wind to create a more realistic visual effect.
In the second year of the Tianli calendar, Kuizhang Pavilion eleven cabinet ministers jointly signed the Kuizhang Pavilion
In the second year of the Tianli calendar, Kuizhang Pavilion eleven cabinet ministers jointly signed the Kuizhang Pavilion
Enter on the 10th day of the second year of the lunar calendar. Signed by Kyujanggak Academy. Minister Zhang Jingxian. Counselor of Kyujanggak Academy. Wen Linlang. Chen Ke Jiusi. Counselor of Kyujanggak Academy. Doctor of Training. Chen Yahu. Kyujanggak enshrines the bachelor Seongdeoklang. Chancellor Line. Kyujanggak enshrines a bachelor. Doctor of the Central Council. Chensha Thorn Class. Bachelor's degree in Kyujanggak. Doctor of Training. Chen Li Ling. Bachelor's degree in Kyujanggak. Dr. Asasan In the book left Shirou middle. Chenduo comes. Bachelor of Kyujanggak. Bachelor of Hanlim. Dr. Zhongbong. Knowing the system. History of the Initiates of the Nation. He is also a banquet officer. Chen Yu Collection. Bachelor of Kyujanggak. Dr. Zishan. The right of the book. Chancellor Sadie. Fellow of Kyujanggak University. Dr. Guanglu. Zhongshu Pingzhang political affairs. Knowing the scriptures and feasting. Minister Zhao Shiyan. Fellow of Kyujanggak University. Dr. Guanglu. Knowing the scriptures and feasting. The minister Kudu Luduer was lost.
Zhao Gan (c. late 10th century), a native of Jiangning, Jiangsu, was a student of the painting academy of Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty of the fifth dynasty. According to the record of "Xuanhe Painting Spectrum", Zhao Gan's paintings are mostly Jiangnan scenery, such as Louguan, water village, fishing market, etc. "The First Snow in the River" may be the only surviving work of Zhao Gan.