The Stone Sea is like a scroll

[Stone Sea Nine Like Picture Volume]

Nine Like Picture Volume, Qing Dynasty, Stone Sea Painting, silk edition, color setting, 237.5 cm horizontally and 28.3 cm vertically
This self-identification: “written on the stone sea at the end of the Qianlong Xinweijia period.” The white seal of “stone sea” is stamped below. Qianlong Xinwei was the 16th year of Qianlong (1751)
The whole volume has no background and only 9 independent the Taihu Lake Lake stones are painted. Each the Taihu Lake Lake stone is stamped with the self inscription of a painter, including “One Day, Three Autumn”, “Beneficial”, “January 45”, “Bairen”, “Here is the truth”, “Today’s Rain”, “Stone Sea”, etc., and another side of the inscription. The stones are richly colored and have different shapes. The painter writes with his pen and works with his belt, which can be put in and out freely. The nine stones mean “nine like”, which comes from the “Book of Songs · Elegance · Tianbao”: “Tianbao Ding Er, so it is not prosperous. Such as mountains, such as hills, such as mountains, such as mountains, such as mountains, such as mountains, such as mountains, such as mountains, such as mountains, such as rivers, so it is not increased,… such as the moon, such as the rise of the sun. Such as the longevity of Nanshan Mountain, such as not falling, such as pine and cypress, such as not falling.” This poem uses nine “like” characters to celebrate the long life of happiness, so it is speculated that this picture should be specially made for someone’s birthday.