China's Top Ten Famous Heirloom Paintings

The Ten Most Famous Heirloom Paintings in China are Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, Qingming Shanghe Tu, Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains, Five Oxen, Hundred Steeds, Spring Dawn in the Han Palace, Han Xizai's Night Banquet, Ladies in the Tang Palace, The Steps in the Chariot, and The Luoshen Fugu.

One, (Yuan) Huang Gongwang "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains"

"Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains" is the masterpiece of the Yuan dynasty painting, "Yuan four" the first Huang Gongwang's masterpieces in his later years, but also the pinnacle of the ancient Chinese ink and water landscape paintings, in the Chinese traditional landscape paintings of the artistic achievements, can be said to be unprecedented, and no other generation.

Two, (Northern Song Dynasty) Zhang Zeduan "Qingming Shanghe Tu"

"Qingming Shanghe Tu" scroll, Northern Song Dynasty custom painting works. Heirloom masterpiece, first-class national treasure. One of the most famous works in the history of Chinese painting, Qingming Riverside Scroll not only has a high level of artistry, but also many interesting stories have been passed down around it.

Three, (Northern Song Dynasty) Wang Ximeng "Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers"

The "Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers" comprehensively inherited the Sui and Tang Dynasty since the expression of green landscapes, highlighting the thickness of the stone green stone green, verdant effect, so that the picture is bright and rich. Between water, sky, trees and stones, the color is rendered with doped powder and ochre.

Four: Five Cattle Picture by Han Hwang

The Five Cattle Picture is a treasure in the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing. On linen paper, 20.8 centimeters longitudinally and 139.8 centimeters horizontally, without mark. The author is Han Hwang, a famous prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. This painting, "Five Cows," is one of Han Hwang's most evocative.

V. Lang Shining's Hundred Juns

The Hundred Juns, on paper, 102 centimeters longitudinally and 813 centimeters horizontally. Now in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.

Six: (Ming) Qiu Ying's Spring Dawn in the Han Palace

Spring Dawn in the Han Palace, the first long scroll of Chinese ladies in heavy colors. Heavy color on silk, the size is very large, 37.2cm × 2038.5cm, as a decorative painting belongs to the giant. Spring Dawn in the Han Palace is a traditional subject of Chinese figure painting, mainly depicting the life of concubines in the palace. It is now in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.

VII. (Fifth Dynasty) Gu Ma-zhong's Han Xizai Night Banquet

Han Xizai Night Banquet, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing. Silk, 28.7 centimeters longitudinally, 335 centimeters horizontally. It was made by Gu Ma-zhong, a great painter of the Five Dynasties, and depicts in a long chain of scrolls the scene of Han Xizai's family, a great eunuch of the Southern Tang Dynasty, having a banquet and having a good time.

VIII. (Tang) Zhang Xuan and Zhou Fang's "Pictures of Ladies in the Tang Palace"

The "Pictures of Ladies in the Tang Palace" shows the beautiful women of the Tang Dynasty, who "smile back and a hundred winks come to life". Among them, the most outstanding representatives are Zhang Xuan's "Lady Guo Guo's Spring Tour", "The Painting of the Lian", and Zhou Fang's "Lady with Hairpin", "Lady with Fan", and the "Palace Music" of the Late Tang Dynasty.

Nine: (Tang) Yan Liben's "Steps in the Emperor's Carriage"

The "Steps in the Emperor's Carriage" is a treasure in the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing. Silk, color, 38.5 centimeters longitudinally, 129.6 centimeters horizontally, painted by Yan Liben, a famous painter of the Tang Dynasty, with fluent and pure lines, full of expressive power, it is a work of great historical and artistic value.

Ten, (Eastern Jin Dynasty) Gu Kaizhi "Luoshen Fu Figure"

The original "Luoshen Fu Figure" volume, the famous painter of Eastern Jin Dynasty, Gu Kaizhi painted (Song copy), this painting is based on Cao Zhi's famous "Luoshen Fu," which is a fine work of Gu Kaizhi's heirloom.

Works content:

"China's top ten heirloom masterpieces" are all the generations of not two to the treasure, high head of the huge book, through the trials and tribulations of the flow of order. To the qing qianjia period, one after another into the house, then isolated from the world. Subsequently, through the war, scattered all over the world, and now they are all major museum treasures are tied up.

"China's top ten heirloom paintings" have a strong cultural traces of citation, inscription, inscription, collection of seals, etc., to the world to show the true charm of the treasures of Chinese art.