Imitating Wang Meng’s “Ge Hong Moving”

Imitating Wang Meng’s “Ge Hong Moving”

• Image Number: K2A000644N000000000PAA
• Dynasty: Ming dynasty
• Category: Paintings
• Author: Zheng Zhong;鄭重
• Form: 軸
• Exhibition dimension: 135.8×29.1
• Description:
  Draw the scene of Ge Hong, a famous Taoist in the Jin Dynasty, moving in. Ge Hong, a scholar of the Jin Dynasty, called himself Baopuzi. He learned how to refine pills in Zheng Yin. Later, he heard that red sand was coming from Jiaozhi. He went to Guangdong Luofu Mountain with his nephew to refine pills. In the painting, Bao Shi, his wife, holds a child in her arms. Ge Hong is behind, riding a cow. One child carries a morning glory, one carries furniture, and the other carries a medicine ladle on the back of a goose. Another sheep and two dogs. The mountains in the painting are thickly painted, which is exactly Wang Meng’s style. The characters in the scene are also lively.