Emperor Yongzheng’s Traveling Music and Taoist Costume Album

[The album of Emperor Yongzheng’s Traveling Music and Taoist Costumes]

The album of Emperor Yongzheng’s Traveling Music and Taoist Costumes, painted by court painters in the Qing Dynasty, is made of silk, colored, 34.9 cm vertically and 31 cm horizontally
As the prince of Emperor Kangxi, Yin Zhen, before taking over the throne, faced with the dangerous situation of colluding among brothers and deliberately seeking to seize the throne, adopted the way of hiding his strength and hiding his strength: ostensibly, he and the monks and Taoists agreed to return, pretending to stay out of the way and travel around the world, but secretly, he actively carried out activities to recruit party members and expand his strength. As far as Buddhism and Taoism are concerned, Yin Zhen has gained a certain understanding and belief in Buddhism and Taoism by reading Buddhist and Taoist classics and communicating with monks and Taoist figures. Throughout his life, although he paid less attention to Taoism than Buddhism, he believed in the fortune telling of Mount Wuyi Taoist before reaching the summit, later accepted Lou Jinyuan, a Taoist in Jiangxi, as his Buddhist disciple, and raised Taoist Jia Shifang and Zhang Taixu in the palace to cultivate pills, which reflected that Yinzhen maintained a reverence for Taoism
The Painting of Emperor Yongzheng’s Traveling Music and Taoist Costume is the opening page of the Painting of Emperor Yongzheng’s Traveling Music. The picture depicts Emperor Yongzheng wearing a Taoist costume on the boulder on the shore, waving the dust tail with his left hand, twisting his right hand, and chanting words in his mouth. However, seeing the waves rolling, a dragon leaped out of the water, flailing its teeth and claws, which was spectacular. Emperor Yongzheng ordered the painter to paint himself as a Taoist image, showing his relationship with Taoism.