Three Yang [Goats], an Auspicious Start (to the New Year)

Three Yang [Goats], an Auspicious Start (to the New Year)

• Image Number: K2A000905N000000000PAA
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Paintings
• Author: Emperor Xuanzong;Ming Dynasty;朱瞻基;明宣宗
• Form: 軸
• Exhibition dimension: 211.6×142.5
• Description:
  Zhu Zhanji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty (1399-1435 AD), often competed with Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty (1082-1335 AD) for his free and natural calligraphy and painting. This painting was painted in the fourth year of Xuande (1429 AD). It is a light colored picture of a child goat and a mother goat, one big and two small. It is lined with bamboo, stone and camellia, which means “Three Auspicious Days Bring Prosperity”. The “Three Auspicious Beginnings” is the eleventh hexagram of the sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes. The hexagrams represent the heaven, earth and earth, and the earth. In the first month of the twelfth month, he used the Taigua to live. He took the auspicious image of winter and spring.