Picture scroll of yellow chen winding water cup

[Huang Chen’s Painting of Qushui Flowing Cup]

The Painting of Qushui Flowing Cup, Ming Dynasty, Huang Chen’s painting, paper edition, ink brush, 29.8 cm in length and 252.4 cm in width
This picture reads: “At the beginning of the late spring of the fifth son of Wanli, Chang Xiao and Huang Chen wrote”. Seal “Changxiao” (Zhu Wen) and “Huangchen Menglong” (Bai Wen). This painting has “Qingyu Thatched Cottage” (Zhu Wen), “Yuzhai Collection” (Zhu Wen), “Zhang’s Collection of Paintings and Calligraphy” (Zhu Wen), “Duanzhou Su Zhongzi Yuanhui’s Secret Collection of Paintings and Calligraphy” (Zhu Wen), etc. The fifth son of Wanli is the 16th year of Wanli (1588). Huang Chen, known as Jingzhou, claims to be Chang Xiaosheng, a native of Wujiang, Jiangsu Province. Good at painting landscapes, flowers and birds
In the front of the picture, Wang Xizhi was watching the geese in the pavilion, two boys were standing around, one boy was warming wine behind the screen, and then forty-one scholars were sitting on both sides of the winding stream, drinking and composing poems, and talking about the secret feelings. This picture completely reproduces the situation of Wang Xizhi and others in the ninth year of Yonghe’s reign in the Eastern Jin Dynasty when they were performing the water show at the Lanting and the winding water was flowing. It is drawn according to the book of Li Gonglin in the Northern Song Dynasty. There are certain changes in the layout of view taking and the specific painting methods of mountains, rocks and trees