Xu Guangzuo’s Orchid Pavilion Map and Preface Volume

[Xu Guangzuo’s Preface to Orchid Pavilion Drawing and Book Merging]

Preface to Orchid Pavilion Drawing and Book Merging “Volume, Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangzuo’s painting, damask, color setting, vertical 27 cm, horizontal 136.1 cm
There is Xu Guangzuo’s book “Preface to the Orchid Pavilion” at the back of the volume, which reads: “The late spring of 1911 was copied in the Jade Ying Hall of the long water. Xu Guangzuo in Guanxi.” The next seal is “Lingchang surname” Zhu Wenyin. Xinhai was the thirty-ninth year of the Wanli calendar of the Ming Dynasty (1611). There is no money in the heart of the painting, and there is the “Yong’an Shen’s book collection and painting seal” Zhu Wenjian’s collection and seal. Xu Guangzuo, who was active around the Wanli year of the Ming Dynasty (the forty-fourth year of Wanli’s book “The Record of the Restoration of Chongsheng Zen Academy”), was a person of Qiantang. With Tang Huan in the same county, he got his calligraphy, and his name was Tang Xu. There is also talk of Ningguo government pushing officials. According to the Taiping County Annals, “Xu Guangzuo (the county magistrate), a native of Shanxi, was promoted to the local government and promoted the official position”. The Ming History also called him “Wanli Gengzi (the same as the Annals of the Hangzhou Government), and the Ningguo Government pushed the officials”, which shows the chaos in the history. He is the author of the Collection of Xu Lingchang’s Poems (the Collection of Xu Lingchang is from Western Shaanxi, and the Collection of Four Corpus Complete Books, Volume 180, Part 33: “The Collection of Xu Lingchang’s Poems (without volume number) was collected by the Governor of Zhejiang Province. It was written by Xu Guangzuo in the Ming Dynasty, with the name of” Guangzuo “, and the name of” Lingchang “, a Shaanxi native. It is a collection of poems engraved on the sons of the ancient people. Its poetic style is rarely met with polices. The publication is not divided into volumes, but the first part of each body must be titled as the beginning. It is also the unfinished book.” Volume 9: “There was a story about Xu Guangzuo’s ancestral residence in Jincong Hall.”. It can be seen that there are two Guangzuo, one Guanxi and one Qiantang. The book can be written by all. Volume 31 of “Shiqu Baoji” is written by “Xu Guangzuo of the Ming Dynasty, who wrote a volume of lute Fu, which is second to the first volume. The book is written in gold, which is a small regular script. The reader said: ‘Right Ji Shu’s lute Fu, which is written in autumn, is recorded in the Muslim Hall, which is six times the age of sixty, which is the same as Xu Guangzuo of the West”. There are calligraphic works handed down, but the literature does not record that he can paint
This volume is based on mountains and rivers to show the story of the Orchid Pavilion. At the foot of the scroll head mountain, two scholars came with three children. There was a pavilion near the front stream. There was a table in the middle of the pavilion. One scholar waved his hair on the table, one scholar sat on the side, and another scholar sat on the bench leaning against the fence to watch the geese. The two sides of the stream are painted with many scholars and children. The scholars sit in groups, or meditate or talk, or observe or wave their hair. One of them sits with his chest open, and his hands are raised as if to nourish the spirit. The other two scholars are drinking a cup of wine, which is vivid. There are lotus leaves in the stream carrying the wine cup down the river. Although the picture generally inherits the composition method of watching geese and composing poems on the bank in the Lanting Gallery since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, from the perspective of the clothing, dynamics and number of the characters in the picture, the painter’s performance is more like the situation of the Ming Dynasty literati imitating Wang Xizhi and other Lanting Gallery, rather than the real reproduction of the original appearance at that time. The figure in the picture has simple and precise lines, elegant colors, and the outline of the rocks is polished with side brush, neat and soft