Solemn Dragon Boat Race Chart Axis

[Solemn Dragon Boat Racing Map Axis]

Dragon Boat Racing Map Axis, Ming Dynasty, solemnly painted, silk, colored, 129.5 cm vertically and 58 cm horizontally
This page is signed as “Solemn”. The seal bears the seal of the Qing Dynasty’s internal government collection: “Sanxi Hall’s Jingjian Seal”, “suitable for posterity”, “Jiaqing’s imperial treasure”, “Shiqu’s treasure collection”, “three collections of treasure collection”, and “Xuantong’s imperial treasure”
The picture depicts the scene of the lake area in southern China during the Dragon Boat Festival. The picture adopts Ma Yuan’s “one-corner” composition. The old and young people who watch the dragon boat race are concentrated on the shore at the lower right corner of the picture, which is hidden between the trees and rocks in the lake. Some people ride on the branches of the tree trunk to get a better view of the race. A large amount of blank space in the picture forms the vast lake, where four dragon boats and one phoenix boat are paddling and racing. The distant mountains are looming. The whole picture is exquisite, beautiful and lively, and is a masterpiece of genre painting
This painting inherits the beautiful green landscape painting style of “General Li and General Li” in the Tang Dynasty. The overall charm of the painting is beautiful and vivid, and the application of color outlines is beautiful and meticulous. It also absorbs the characteristics of the times in the details of composition and brushwork. It has the style of vivid and realistic composition and layout of fine brushwork painting in the Ming Dynasty, full of dynamic pictures, exquisite details of characters, and vivid and realistic customs