Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall Deep Dwelling Picture Screen • Tongyin Tea Tasting Axis

[Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall Deep Dwelling Picture Screen • Tongyin Tea Tasting Axis]

The axis of Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall Deep Dwelling Picture Screen • Tongyin Tea Tasting, Qing Dynasty, painted by court painters, silk, colored, 184 cm vertically and 98 cm horizontally
This is one of the 12 pictures of Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall Dwelling on the Screen
The picture shows a beautiful woman holding a fan enjoying tea under the flourishing wutong tree. Tea originated in Bashu. Through the carving of “culture” by literati and officialdom of all dynasties, it gradually changed from the material category to the spiritual realm of “morality”, and became a tea culture with rich charm. Tea tasting also became a symbol of elegance. Through the moonlit door in the picture, we can see a corner of the black lacquer gold-painted bookshelf. The books in the letter above set off against the tea set in the lady’s hand, showing the woman’s knowledge and cultivation
This picture shows four different spatial environments, namely, the courtyard where the ladies are located, the interior with bookshelves, the cloister with red fences, and the courtyard with green bamboo outside the cloister. The author expanded the space of the picture from near to far through the front and back screen between the objects and the perspective of the near, far and small, and fully showed the good living environment of the women in the court, which shows the author’s skillful ability to change the composition of the space