Zhu Sansong’s bamboo carving and the combination of two immortals

[Zhu Sansong’s bamboo carving and the combination of two immortals]

The bamboo carving and the combination of two immortals are made of Zhu Sansong in the Ming Dynasty, with a height of 5.2 cm
The two monks are carved with bamboo roots, riding on a lotus boat. A monk sits in the bow of the boat, holding a cattail fan in his hand, and a monk sits at the stern of the boat, using brooms as oars. The two monks were smiling and naive. The lotus boat is carved with “three pines” on the outside. According to the costumes and demeanor of the characters, it can be inferred that the two monks were Hanshan, a strange monk in Taizhou during the reign of Tang Zhenguan. According to the Biography of the Eminent Monks of the Song Dynasty, the two monks look like crazy. Hanshan is often “scattered with cloth”, “crowned with birch skin and dragging big wooden clogs”, and is often “calling for abuse” and “looking at the sky and cursing”; Shide used to hit the statue of Galan with a stick, which was like “Buddha bless and curse the ancestors”. There are many anecdotes about their miraculous deeds in the legend. In the folk plastic arts, Hanshan often holds a box in his hand and a lotus in his hand, which means “harmony” and “harmony” in harmony. In the eleventh year of Yongzheng’s reign (1733) of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court granted Hanshan Mountain as the “Holy Harmony” and picked it up as the “Holy Harmony” to show the official recognition of folk beliefs
The author of this bamboo carving seems to be careless with a few knives, but the difference between the two immortals and the common people is obvious in the eyes of the audience, which is beyond the reach of experts