Ding Yunpeng’s “Feng Yuan Becomes a Bear” Volume

[Ding Yunpeng’s Painting of Feng Yuan as a Bear]

Ding Yunpeng’s Painting of Feng Yuan as a Bear volume, Ming Dynasty, Ding Yunpeng’s painting, paper edition, color setting, 32.6 cm vertically and 148.8 cm horizontally
This page is signed: “Written by Ding Yunpeng at the end of Wanli’s reign.” With the seal of “Nanyu” Zhu Wenfang. There are four characters in Wu Yuanman’s seal script “Feng Yuandang (sound block) bear” at the beginning, and Wu Shiyao and Shi Yumin’s postscript at the end
According to the question, this picture was made in the 11th year of Wanli (1583) of the Ming Dynasty
This picture shows Feng Yuan’s story scene of fending off the bear with green bamboos, wutong, toon trees and lake stones as the background. According to the records of “The Book of the Han Dynasty • The Legend of the Waiqi • Feng Zhaoyi”, during the reign of Jianzhao in the Western Han Dynasty, the Emperor Yuan led his left and right followers to watch the battle of animals in the harem. Suddenly, a bear escaped from the circle and climbed the fence to go to the hall. Feng Jieyu rushed forward to block the bear and stood up to protect the Yuan Emperor from injury. “Feng Yuan should be a bear” should be the standard of loving you. The thirty-six volumes of the Book of Han Dynasty are called “eight chapters of the Biography of Lienv to warn the Son of Heaven”