Atlas of Wenzhengming East Park

[Wenzhengming East Garden Map Volume]

The East Garden Map Volume, Ming Dynasty, Wenzhengming, silk, color, 30.2 cm vertical, 126.4 cm horizontal
The East Garden is located under the Phoenix Terrace in Zhongshan, Nanjing. It was originally a gift garden of Xu Da, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, and was named “Taifu Garden”. Later, its fifth grandson Xu Tai repaired and expanded it to become a villa, and changed its name to “East Garden”. There are peaks and peaks in the park, the rivers and lakes are connected, the Lingyan rocks are arranged in front and behind, the flowers and plants are luxuriant, and the pavilions and pavilions are arranged in an orderly manner. Chang Ya, a wise and famous scholar who was friendly with Xu, gathered in the East Garden to talk about poems and essays, or to drink tea and play the piano, or to play chess, or to enjoy calligraphy and painting. He was very happy. The Painting of the East Garden was painted by Wen Zhengming, one of the four schools in the Ming Dynasty, at the age of 61 (the ninth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, 1530). It shows the scene of the East Garden Fair. In the picture, the slab bridge is across the rippling stream, the green pines and green bamboos echo each other in the distance, the lakes and rocks are scattered, the green trees are shaded, and the water in the pool is wrinkled by the breeze, and ripples rise in layers. On the way, the two scholars walked and talked, followed by the boy with piano; In the hall, four people were absorbed in appreciating the paintings, and another child with a number of scrolls of calligraphy and paintings stood at the table. The two people playing chess in the waterside pavilion looked relaxed and relaxed
There are two styles of Wen Zhengming’s paintings: one is the patriarchal clan system of Shen Zhou and Wu Zhen, which has the appearance of rough ink, known as rough text; First, he studied under Zhao Mengfu and Wang Meng. He was heavily dyed in green and green, and was meticulous and meticulous. He was known as “fine prose” in the world. In his early years, Wen’s work was mainly fine. After middle age, he was both fine and thick. The later he worked, the more he worked. The painting of the East Garden is his masterpiece in his later years. The scenery in the painting is mostly filled with empty hooks. The ink lines are thin and continuous. The brushwork is ancient and clumsy, the color is beautiful and elegant, and the halo is fine. As Wang Yuanqi said, “The color does not interfere with the ink, the ink does not interfere with the color, and there must be ink in the color, and the color in the ink.” Although the whole picture is based on the cyan and green color method, it does not show the spirit of the craftsman at all. What fills the picture is the leisurely and elegant literati atmosphere. The characters in the painting have the style of the celebrities in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, This is what makes Wen’s paintings of this kind of elegant collection more extraordinary
At the beginning of the picture is Xu Lin’s official script “East Garden Collection”. At the top right of the picture is the seal character “East Garden”, and at the end of the picture is the inscription “Jiajing Geng Yin Qiu Zheng Ming System”, and the seal “Stop Cloud”, “Yulan Tang Seal”, “Zheng Zhong” and other seals. At the end of the volume, there are Zhan Ruoshui’s regular script “East Garden” and Chen Yi’s running script “Journey to Taifu Garden”.