Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall Deep Dwelling Picture Screen • Candle Sewing Axis

[Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall’s Deep Dwelling Screen • Sewing under Candle]

The axis of Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall’s Deep Dwelling Screen • Sewing under Candle, painted by court painters in the Qing Dynasty, silk edition, color setting, 184 cm vertically and 98 cm horizontally
This is one of the 12 pictures of Prince Yong’s Inscription Hall Dwelling on the Screen
This picture is ingeniously conceived, connecting the original independent indoor and outdoor spaces through the opening of the front and rear windows, thus showing three different space environments: the front of the house is a small garden landscape decorated with beautiful stones and fish tanks; Inside the room is the scene of women holding candles to sew clothes and being diligent in needlework; Behind the house, red bats can be seen flying among the green bamboo bushes. The author uses the homonym of “bat” and “blessing” to endow this picture with the auspicious meaning of “blessing comes”. The creation purpose of this picture is to publicize the virtue of Gongye women’s diligence in needlework. The needlework includes textile, embroidery, sewing, etc. It is one of the criteria for measuring women’s morality in ancient times. Therefore, the sewing scene in the picture is the largest and most vivid
The hair style of the woman in this picture is the same as that of the woman in “Prince Yong’s Book Hall Deep Dwelling on the Picture Screen • Holding the Ruyi Axis”, which is called “Luoji”. In the Ming Dynasty, Wang Yuyang once praised this hairstyle in a poem that said “green snails are as beautiful as buns.”