Detail View: National Palace English: Chanting in Idle Time
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Work ID:
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M01E00247
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Title:
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Chanting in Idle Time
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Creation Date:
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Ming Dynasty
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Start Year Date:
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A.D.1368
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End Year Date:
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A.D.1644
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Dynasty:
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45 Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368~1644)
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Creator:
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Chen Hong-shou
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Creation Place:
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China
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Measurements:
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79.3 x 31.7 cm
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Material:
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Ink on paper
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Form:
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Li-zhou (hanging scroll)
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Type:
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Painting
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Subject:
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Figure
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Repository:
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The National Palace Museum, Taipei
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Description:
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In the baimiao [ink outline] technique, Chen has depicted a scholar wearing a flower in his cap. With his left hand, he grasps a walking stick, and with his right he appears in the gesture of tapping lightly. He has a free and easy mood, like the character of a lofty, easy-going poet. There is a seven-character line poem inscribed, "Why do we always write poems when going into the mountains?/Heaven gives birth to a type like myself, the eccentric mountain dweller/At times I also teach the mountain children to chant/Do you not think that the children are not as good as the courtesans?" In this painting, the flower in the scholar's cap seems to be a type of chrysanthemum. There is a good chance that the painting depicts the famous official Tao Yuanming (365-427) of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Chen Hongshou liked to depict the life of this recluse scholar, as evidenced in his late works, Returning Home (1650) and Sixteen Scenes of Living in Seclusion (1651).
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ImageV ID:
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M01E00247AS001
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Rights:
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Lee & Lee Communications
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