Carved bamboo brush pot with writing, Wang Yongfang (fl. 18th c.), Qing dynasty-China Archive

Carved bamboo brush pot with writing, Wang Yongfang (fl. 18th c.), Qing dynasty

Image Number: K1G000010N000000000PAC
Dynasty: Qing dynasty
Category: Carvings
Function: Containers, stationery and games
Material: Plants/Bamboo/
Description:
The whole device intercepts a section between two nodes of the aboveground stem of bamboo. After renovating and scraping the skin, which is called “bamboo green” or “green yun”, it uses the profound technique of large characters to inscribe the quotation of the five character poem “Jiang Yue” written by Su Shi of the Northern Song Dynasty, and then adds a wooden bottom. The poem quoted ten lines of this article, followed by two lines of greeting, The full text is like the following: Su Zizhan said, “The atmosphere in the south of the Five Ridges is not uniform. I have a taste of the cloud: When chrysanthemums bloom, it is the Double Ninth Festival. A cool day and a beautiful moon are the Mid Autumn Festival, so we don’t need to take the sun and the moon as a break. This September, the summer is fading away, and after we look at it, the moon rises more late. Let’s try climbing the Hejiang Tower at night, visiting the Fenghu Lake with guests, entering the Qixia Buddhist Temple, buckling the Luofu Taoist Temple, climbing the Leisure Hall, and returning at dawn. Du Zimei said,” The mountain spits the moon at the fourth watch, and the bright water tower at the last night. “It is a masterpiece in ancient and modern times The other two boxes are engraved with running script: “Shunjiang Wang Yongfang was recorded in a residence.” In the 12th year of Jiaqing’s reign (1807) of the Qing Dynasty, Jin Yuanyu’s “Record of Bamboo People” was dedicated to the bamboo carving art in Jiading. The first volume included Wang Yongfang, a bamboo man in Jiading, who said, “Wang Yongfang has the character of jade axe, and he has the character of Shunjiang himself. He has the character of carving, and he has the spirit of being loyal to Su.”. That is to say, Wang Yongfang is good at the intaglio characters in the bamboo carving art, and his handwriting can always show the “clean and vigorous sprinkling” charm of Su Dongpo’s calligraphy art. The wall of this writing barrel records the introduction of Su Shi’s five “River Moon” poems. Su Shi grew up in Sichuan and is unfamiliar with the tropical or subtropical Lingnan climate. The chrysanthemums in Sichuan bloomed around the Double Ninth Festival. The weather was cold in the Mid Autumn Festival in August, but the Lingnan was late in September of the lunar calendar, and the residual heat did not subside. At this time, the moon also rose late. Nevertheless, Su Dongpo gets up in the middle of the night abnormally, swims in the Jianghu, or visits the temple! Bamboo people in Jiading carved characters in the early Qing Dynasty with large fonts, but in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, they gradually became smaller. In other regions, many scholars or signers who were good at carving took part in the creation of bamboo carving art in an amateur manner. Most of the carved characters were small characters. At this time, it was difficult to find long characters like those on Wang Yongfang’s pen barrel!