▌[Qing] Shen Quan's "Xiangyun Holding the Sun And Wishing Birthday Map" Collection of Xinxiang City Museum
The Xinxiang Museum has a collection of hundreds of Paintings from the Qing Dynasty, and this one is Shen Quan's "Xiangyun Holding the Sun and Wishing for Birthday" is one of them.
This "Xiangyun Holding Day Blessing Birthday Map" belongs to the lower left section of "Xiangyun Holding Day Blessing Birthday Chart, courtesy of Shen Quan." "There are two sides under the paragraph, one side has a white name printed "Shen Quan's Seal", and the other side Zhu Wen prints "Nan Ping".
In the middle of the picture, the clouds roll over, the red sun is overhead, and two cranes in the upper left stand on the green and ancient pines, one singing and one looking back and whispering.
▌ "Xiangyun Holding The Day birthday map" part
Under the auspicious clouds, Lu Xing was dressed in official clothes, wearing an official hat, holding a string of jade ruyi in his right hand, and fanning the book boy behind him, looking at the red sun.
The birthday star squatted, holding a scroll in his hand, and read it carefully. On the right, Fu Xing opened his arms as if to surround a child with a fan, and a boy behind him, dressed in a pink coat and holding a cage in his hand, looked at Lu Xing.
In traditional Chinese painting subjects, the crane is the head of the feather tribe, because it has the longest lifespan among birds, and has the reputation of prolonging life. Pine cypress is solemn and solemn, evergreen and immortal, the length of a hundred trees, and is often used to wish for longevity and longevity. Putting the pine crane together means "songling crane life" and "pine crane extending life". In addition, Fu, Lu and Shou are the three gods of Chinese folk belief, symbolizing happiness, auspiciousness and longevity. This kind of painting with auspicious meaning and blessing is Shen Quan's particular favorite subject.
The whole work is full of composition, delicate brushwork, dense and appropriate, and it is a masterpiece full of beautiful meanings.
Shen Quan (1682~ 1760), zi hengzhi, number Nanping, Zhejiang Huzhou Deqing County Xinshi Town (now Wuxing District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province), Qing Dynasty painter, engaged in painting around the age of 20, and made a living from it. His paintings were far away from the Huang Zhen school, close to the Ming Dynasty Lü Ji, who wrote flowers and feathers and walking beasts, especially for his precision and beauty, and was also good at painting ladies. His people were once hired to travel east to Japan and create the "Nanping School", and his flower and bird sketches were highly respected by the Japanese and were known as "the first imported painters".
This article is excerpted from "Collection" Magazine, Issue 5, 2021, Zheng Yuanyuan's "Spring Breeze under the Pen: Appreciation of Famous Paintings in the Qing Dynasty", for more content, please pay attention to the current issue of the magazine.
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