Picture scroll of Yuzhiding Moon Wave playing flute

[Yuzhiding Moon Wave Flute Painting Volume]

The Moon Wave Flute Painting Volume, Qing Dynasty, Yuzhiding painting, silk, color, 26.4 cm vertical, 144 cm horizontal

The title of the paragraph is: “The picture of the moon wave playing the flute. The Wuchen Spring and the mid-moon of Guangling Yu’s tripod.” The seal is “Yu’s tripod”, Bai Wenyin, and “Shen Zhai”, Zhu Wenyin. Wuchen was in the 27th year of Kangxi (1688), and Yu Zhiding was 42 years old. At the top right of the picture are two poems written by Zhu Kuntian and Zha Siyu, Zhu Shi wrote: “The night is vague and the water is wide, and the cold smoke is desert and the moon is in groups. A fishing flute and a row, half into the reed beach and half into the polygonal beach. The world is full of wind and waves, and the return from the lake is a lot of fun. The Chu songs do not sing the Wu songs. Kuntian wrote it himself.” The poem read: “I once wrote the words of the immortal iron flute and laughed at his vulgar guest’s poetry of leaning on the floor. I want to be an oar master from you. The sound of the flute flows together with the sound of the water, and the south lake is clear and slippery in autumn. When the green coir raincoat goes at will, you don’t have to worry about the smoke and rain. The moon wave is the smoke and rain building custom is also wrong. Lang Shan Cha Si Si Si is also wrong.” Zhu Kuntian wrote a poem at the end of the paper: “Zhu thirty-five lives in our state and buys fishing boats for the water perch. I also return home to work as a fisherman, playing flute and moon wave tower in the cool night. Wu Nong’s life is to plant water, and the flowers are thicket at the dusk of the lotus in the morning. The crab house is a small fishing house, and the gull sand is in the shadow of the hanging willows. Yu Lang has no painting brush recently. He invited to write about a lake of mandarin ducks. He did not see Huang Zijiu in that year, and he used his fist to draw a reading map. He took the meaning of Zhu Xizhen’s fisherman’s words for three quatrains, and asked Yu Shangji in Guangling to draw. Kuntian.”

The picture is plain and quiet, but it implies deep meaning. At the beginning of the volume, the towering Yuebo Tower came into view. According to the inscription of Zha Situ after the volume, “Yuebo Tower is the popular Yanyu Tower”, it shows that Yuebo Tower is the famous Yanyu Tower in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Zhu Kuntian’s hometown is in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. In the picture, the night is dark, the moon is faint, the water is rippling, and the trees and willows are all around. Zhu Kuntian is dressed in cloth and a bamboo hat, dressed as a fisherman, sitting on the stern of the boat, playing flute alone, and looking attentive. This painting not only shows the wishes of the protagonist to play flute and fish, but also conveys the homesickness of the master. The unique artistic conception vividly conveys Zhu’s homesickness