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Five Generations of Southern Tang Dynasty Painter Zhao Gan's "First Snow Map of the River"
"The First Snow Map of Jiang Xing" Volume Five Dynasties Southern Tang Zhao Gan Silk Color 25.9 cm Horizontal 376.5 cm Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
"Jiang Xing Chu Xue Tu" is a work of equal emphasis on landscape figures, unfolding the canvas, first of all, the beginning of the volume presents a line of southern Tang Dynasty lord Li Yu Canggu inscription: "Jiang Xing Chu Xue Southern Tang student Zhao Gan- The eleven words indicate the title of the painting and the author.
The painting "The First Snow of the River" depicts the fisherman working on the riverside. The river is full of cold snow and snow, and the hardships of fishermen are exhausted. The passengers on the shore gathered the president Lin Xuedi, and the faces of the people and donkeys had the color of bitter cold and difficult to travel. The silk is stained with light ink and sprinkled with white powder for snow. The dead woods in the cold forest are all center-forward round pens, and the vigor is like flex iron. The trunk is dyed with a dry pen, which resembles the mountain of the descendants, and has its own yin and yang to the back. The paintings of reeds, wrapped in ochre ink and dotted in one stroke, are extremely creative. The hills and slopes are also smeared in pieces of light ink without wrinkles, which are different from those of later generations.
The full volume depicts the first snow in fishing villages along the Yangtze River. On the picture, the sky is cold, the trees are foggy, the small bridge on the riverbank, a white, the cold wind is cold, the river is slightly flooded, and the scene is cold and silent. Fishermen on the river despite the cold and frozen fishing, while donkey riders on the shore cower, the characters are vividly depicted, and the fishermen and travelers are in perfect contrast. In addition, the tree stone pen in the painting is hard, the water pattern is fluent with the tip of the pen, and the sky is made of white powder as a little snow, showing the light flying of snowflakes. This painting is a natural beauty, and the artistic conception is elegant and remote.
From the seals on the canvas, it can be seen that this volume has gone through the internal governments and private collections of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and is a fine product that has been passed down for a long time.
Li Yu , the ruler of the Southern Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, reigned from 961 to 975, the character Chongguang, the initial name of Congjia, the number of Zhong Yin, Lianfeng resident. A native of Pengcheng (present-day Xuzhou, Jiangsu). The sixth son of Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he succeeded to the throne in the second year of Song Jianlong (961), and was known as Li Hou lord. In the eighth year of Kaibao, the state broke down to the Song Dynasty, captured him in Beijing, and was given the title of Right Qianniu Wei General and Marquis of Disobedience. Later, he was poisoned by Emperor Taizong of Song. Although Li Yu did not understand politics, his artistic talent was extraordinary. Fine calligraphy, good painting, tonal rhythm, poetry and literature have a certain degree of achievement, especially the achievement of words is the highest. Ancient masterpieces such as "Yu Meiren", "LangTaosha", "Dark Night Cry" and so on. It is known as the "Emperor of Ancient Words".
Zhao Gan, a native of Jiangning (present-day Nanjing, Jiangsu), was born and died in an unknown year. Later Lord Li Yuchao (961-975) was a student of the Academy of Painting, good at painting landscapes, trees, and figures, and was good at composition and layout. The paintings are all Jiangnan landscapes, mostly buildings, boats, water villages, fishing markets, dotted with flowers and bamboo, showing the "smoke waves, bright scenery" of the mountains and water colors are particularly unique.