Tea Matters

Tea Matters

• Image Number: K2A000520N000000000PAA
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Paintings
• Author: Wen Zhengming;文徵明
• Form: 軸
• Exhibition dimension: 122.9×35
• Description:
  Picture of friends sipping tea before rain. The three pictures are the same manuscript “Tea tasting picture” postscript said: “Jiajing Xinmao (1531), where tea is flourishing in the mountains. Lu Zi said that he had visited and tasted tea from the spring. It’s really a good story.” Zi Chuan was a native of Cheung Chau and a Lu Shidao. Jiajing Wuxu (1538) was a scholar, an official ritual department, and a disciple of Wen Zhengming. Mr. Lu Zichuan, Wang Shizhen’s successor to Yanzhou, said, “He served as the Department of Rites, and invited his mother to return from her illness, so he learned from the Rites of Hengshan.” Yes, Lu Shidao followed his teacher after the Hundred Days of 1898. Jiajing Xinmao, Lu Shidao is only fifteen years old&# 65378； Fifteen&# 65379; The age of this activity seems suspicious The picture of tea affairs shows that Zheng Ming was ill at the beginning of March (1534), and friends went to Zhixing Tiger Hill to taste tea. Zheng Ming could not go there. A friend brings two or three kinds of gifts. Zheng Ming tasted tea in his illness, wrote ten tea set poems, and drew this picture The painting of tasting tea is elegant and attractive. However, there are doubts about the age, and the calligraphy of the poem is weak. The imitator has a weak heart. The writing cannot be left to nature, and the painting of trees is also dull. The two pictures are not an example of one draft and two paintings. Among them, the painting of tasting tea is suspected of forgery. Jujie (after about 1527-1585) “Tea tasting”, Jujie Ziba&# 65,378; (Wen Zhengming) He ordered Yu Heyun to copy without writing&# 65379； It is a model, but the similarity between teachers and students is also impressive.