Book/Printed Material Image 12 of Lan ting xiu xi tu

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About this Item

Title

  • Lan ting xiu xi tu

Other Title

  • 兰亭修禊图

Translated Title

  • Painting of the Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion during the Spring Purification Festival

Summary

  • This rubbing scroll combines two works: Lanting xu tie (Calligraphy of the preface to the poems composed at the Orchid Pavilion) by Wang Xizhi (321-79), and Liu shang tu (The floating goblets), originally a painting, by the Song artist Li Gonglin (1049-1106). Emperor Qianlong (reigned 1736-95) commissioned this scroll, which was reprinted from the Song rubbing with the missing parts added, based on the fragment of Lanting tu (Illustrations of Lanting) by Zhu Yiyin (1536-1603), Prince Yi of the Ming dynasty. The missing part of the calligraphy of Wang Xizhi's poems in the Dingwu edition (Dingwu is present-day Zhending County, Hebei Province) was also added, using a Song rubbing in the imperial collection. The stone where Lanting tu was carved originally stood in the imperial garden, Yuanmingyuan, but was destroyed by the allied British and French troops in 1860, during the Second Opium War. However, the rubbings of the stone have been preserved to the present and are now in the collection of the National Library of China. Although this is a Qing Qianlong period copy, created in 1781, the completeness of its texts and refined quality of the rubbing make it superior to the Ming copy. It is considered a great treasure.

Names

  • Li, Gonglin, 1049-1106 Artist
  • Qianlong, Emperor of China, 1711-1799 Associated Name
  • Wang, Xizhi, 321-379 Author
  • Zhu, Yiyin, 1536-1603 Contributor

Created / Published

  • Beijing : [Publisher not identified], 1781.

Headings

  • -  China
  • -  321 to 1781
  • -  Chinese calligraphy
  • -  Chinese poetry
  • -  Poetry
  • -  Rubbing -- China

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 scroll ; 22 x 490 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: National Library of China.
  • -  Content in Chinese.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
  • -  Title revised per Asian Division.--cc28 2023-01-06

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021666445

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Li, Gonglin, Artist, Emperor Of China Qianlong, Xizhi Wang, and Yiyin Zhu. Lan Ting Xiu XI Tu. [Beijing: Publisher not identified, 1781] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666445/.

APA citation style:

LI, G., Qianlong, E. O. C., Wang, X. & Zhu, Y. (1781) Lan Ting Xiu XI Tu. [Beijing: Publisher not identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666445/.

MLA citation style:

Li, Gonglin, Artist, et al. Lan Ting Xiu XI Tu. [Beijing: Publisher not identified, 1781] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021666445/>.