Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall Dwelling in the Picture Screen • Reading and Meditation Axis

[Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall’s Inscription Screen • Reading and Meditation Axis]

The axis of Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall’s Inscription Screen • Reading and Meditation, 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
The picture depicts a beautiful woman holding a book and meditating. There are calligraphy and painting banners on the indoor wall. In addition to the words and sentences of Mi Yuanzhang (Mi Fu), a famous poet and calligrapher of the Song Dynasty, they are also painted with ink and colored landscapes, which echo with the books on the table, creating an appropriate cultural atmosphere for displaying the theme of reading in the beautiful women’s exhibition
In the Qing Dynasty, the painting of beautiful ladies had neither the plump beauty of the women in the Tang Dynasty nor the charming posture of the women in the Song Dynasty, nor the dignified and elegant manner of the women in the Ming Dynasty. Their features were mostly long faces, fine eyes, and cherry lips, and their body features were neck trimming, shoulder cutting, and willow waist, with the charm of a sad little jasper. In this picture, the author shows the image of women in the Qing Dynasty as “the wind reveals clear sorrow”. At the same time, the author skillfully records the words of Mi Yuanzhang, “When the cherry mouth, the small willow waist leans against the spring breeze and is half lazy, a kind of mood is expended for entertainment, and the editor is ready to show and meditate”, on the painting. While embellishing the picture in the form of calligraphy, the words also annotate the image of a lady who is tired of reading with the content of its expression