Fan page of landscape map of Xu Wei

[Fan page of Xu Wei’s landscape map]

Fan page of Landscape Map, Ming Dynasty, Xu Wei’s painting, gold paper, ink pen, 15.8 cm in length and 47.4 cm in width
The fan page has its own title: “The Hengjiang River fishing alone was made by Qian Bolan, Wei.” The seal is indistinct
The close view of this picture shows the mountain stone potuo, on which several miscellaneous trees are planted, and some leaves have withered, indicating that it is cold autumn. The middle scene is an empty water area. A man wearing a bamboo hat and fishing alone in a boat. His lonely figure adds a sense of desolation to the painting. The distant view is of low mountains, which are not straight. Xu Wei was brilliant, but he lived in a period when the Ming Dynasty was declining, when Yan Song and other treacherous ministers were in power, and when the rivalry between friends was extremely fierce, his talent was difficult to display. He once wrote in the “Ink Grape” (collected by the Palace Museum): “Half of his life has been lost, and he has become a man of wealth. The independent study whistles in the evening wind, and the bright pearl at the bottom of his pen has no place to sell, and he is casually thrown into the wild vine.” It is a metaphor that he is thrown into the wild vine like a wild grape, and no one cares. The chill and loneliness shown in this picture are just the reflection of his frustrated life and his ambition. The whole painting is concise and flexible, and the ink is rich in Chinese resources. Its shape does not seek to be similar in shape, but to express the inner grievance. It is a typical landscape painting style of Xu Wei