Wuzhen Fisherman Map Axis

[Wuzhen Fisherman Map Axis]

The Fisherman Map axis, made by Wuzhen in the Yuan Dynasty, is 84.7cm in length and 29.7cm in width
In ancient China, fishing, woodcutting, farming and reading were often regarded as idealized ways of life by literati and doctors, and were often used as the theme of literary works to express the author’s desire to escape from the world, especially the material of “fishing”. By the Yuan Dynasty, the Han literati had no way to enter the official career, and their social status fell sharply, especially those in the south of the Yangtze River. As a result, “Yu Yin” appears more frequently in painting works, among which Wu Zhen’s “Yu Fu Tu” is the most typical. Wu Zhenshan painted landscape paintings with the theme of “fishing and hiding”. There are many handed down “The Painting of Fisherman”, which is one of the most representative. The picture depicts the scenery of Jiangnan water town, with flat hills and trees, and a fisherman riding a boat in the lake. The whole picture is dark and moist, and the mountains, trees, branches and leaves have noticed the alternate use of dark colors to show the hierarchical relationship and highlight the main images. The author’s superb pen control ability can be seen from his changeable writing style and his wiping and dyeing. The secluded and quiet artistic conception between the lakes and mountains leaps onto the paper, giving people a sense of being away from the mundane world. Most of Wuzhen’s “The Painting of Fishermen” are matched by the beautiful and unrestrained cursive “Fishermen Group”, and the poems, books and paintings complement each other. This is the book in the picture: “The eyes are broken and the smoke waves are green, the frost is faded and the maple leaf brocade is blurred. The thousand-foot wave, the four-gilled bass, and the poem barrel is relative to the wine gourd.” The poem is the finishing point of the picture, and truly expresses the reclusive feeling of “a leaf can travel with the wind for thousands of miles”