Meiqing Mount Huangshan Map Axis

[Meiqing Mount Huangshan Map Axis]

Mount Huangshan Map Axis, Qing Dynasty, Meiqing painting, silk, color, 186.5 cm in length and 56.7 cm in width
Self title: “Where the Yellow Emperor flew up, there was no shortage of traces left on the platform. Don’t doubt that the danzao was cold, and still felt the fragrance of purple ganoderma lucidum. When you put it into the cloud, the jagged edge of the sword. Who picked the immortal medicine, and smelt the fire and the light? The alchemy platform. Qu Shanqing”. Seal “Songgang” Zhu Wenyin, “Quxing” Bai Wenyin, “Jingting Mountain and Shuangxi Mountain” Zhu Wenyin
The layout of this picture is unconventional. Instead of drawing a complete mountain landform, it blocks the top and bottom of the mountain through invisible clouds, highlighting only one corner of the cliff, thus focusing on the theme of the painting, namely the alchemy platform of Mount Huangshan Mountain. It is said that the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan and the Duke of Fuqiu used to pick cinnabar here to refine pills, so this place became an important place for Taoist activities on Mount Huangshan. Mei Qing is good at painting strange rocks, pines, clouds and other scenes in Mount Huangshan Mountain, but he does not use special colors or lines to show clouds in this picture. Instead, he skillfully uses the technique of “relying on reality” to express the entity of clouds by leaving no trace of white, and through the gaps in the mountains and rocks, he shows the dynamic feeling of clouds floating and the transparent space if there is nothing