[Qianlong Emperor’s Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Fun Chart Axis]
The axis of Emperor Qianlong’s Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Fun Chart, Qianlong, Qing Dynasty, silk, color, 302 cm in length and 204.3 cm in width
This picture depicts the scene of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty celebrating Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) with his royal family’s children in the palace. The Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival, also known as the “Shangyuan Festival”, the “Little First Month”, the “New Year’s Eve” or the “Lantern Festival”, is the first important festival after the Lunar New Year. According to Chinese folk tradition, on this night when the bright moon is hanging high, people not only eat Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival), which means happy reunion, but also light up thousands of colored lanterns, set off fireworks and guess riddles. In the picture, Emperor Qianlong is sitting on the pavilion, watching the royal family’s children celebrate Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) in peace
This picture is not famous by the author. From the perspective of technique, the portrait of the figure in the picture should be drawn by Giuseppe Castiglione, who is good at realistic painting. On the basis of Western portrait painting, he skillfully absorbed traditional Chinese “realistic” painting techniques, vividly displaying the posture and expression of different characters. The houses, trees and stones in the picture are supplemented by Chinese painters, who use traditional Chinese landscape painting and boundary painting techniques to carefully sketch and stipple, not only rendering the warm atmosphere of Yuanxiao (Filled round balls made of glutinous rice-flour for Lantern Festival) Festival, but also showing the deep affection between the Emperor Qianlong and his family
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