Fan page of Zhang Hong’s farmer fighting picture

[Zhang Hong’s Farmer Fight Picture Fan Page]

Farmer Fight Picture Fan Page, Ming Dynasty, Zhang Hong’s painting, gold paper, color setting, 16.2 cm vertically and 51 cm horizontally
The fan page has its own title: “The autumn day of Dinghai was written in the grass pavilion of Hengtang. Zhang Hong
“Dinghai” was the fourth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1647), when Zhang Hong was 71 years old
This picture is painted in the same year as Zhang Hong’s “Boat Blockage at Changguan”. The picture depicts the scene of farmers fighting at the edge of the paddy field in the hot summer. Folding fans have been popular since the Ming Dynasty. In addition to their daily functions of relieving the heat and cooling, they are also the expression carrier of calligraphy and painting art and the elegant objects for people to enter and leave the sleeves. Therefore, painting fans with the theme of farmers at the bottom of the society are rare. There are many characters in this picture, and the plot is very vivid, including the two sides of the fight, the dissuaders, the waiters, and the black dogs who are stimulated by the scene and bark. They are connected with each other through the main line of “struggle” and become a whole that echoes each other. Although all kinds of characters in the picture are small freehand brushwork and the modeling is not accurate enough, the characterization of the characters is highly refined and the expression is meticulous, which is a rare painting with dramatic plot