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Qiu Ying
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仇英
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Left: 蕉陰結夏 In the shade of banana trees whiling away summer 2 Right: 停琴聽阮 Stopping the qin to hear a ruan 3 |
Qiu Ying, 1494 - 1552, executed quite a number of paintings with qin players. A net search will find some of them, but perhaps not some such as In the shade of banana trees whiling away summer, at right, that do not mention qin in the title. The examples at right form an interesting pair. Both feature a qin zither and and ruan lute.4
Qiu Ying did not come from a literati family, and I have yet to find evidence that he played qin himself.
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)
1.
Qiu Ying 仇英
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2.
In the shade of banana trees whiling away summer 蕉陰結夏
In the collection of the
National Palace Museum, Taiwan.
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3.
Stopping the qin to hear a ruan 停琴聽阮
In the collection of the
Guangzhou Museum (?). A net search for the Chinese title yields numerous more recent paintings with this title (but 845.xxx).
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4.
琴阮 Qin zither and ruan lute
Ruan (Wiki; a plucked
lute) and qin were the two instruments associated with the
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. This inspired quite a few artists to depict qin and ruan together. There also was once at least one
Manual for qin and ruan.
In addition to the two Qiu Ying paintings here, other examples in art of this pairing include:
Less directly connected but also interesting is the calligraphy
"Xi (Kang) plays Qin while Ruan (Ji) Whistles" (嵇琴阮嘯 Xi Qin Ruan Xiao). This phrase suggests refined amusement, as with the
Seven Sages. Its earliest appearance seems to be as the second half of 布射僚丸，嵇琴阮嘯, the 115th couplet of the famous 125 couplet Thousand Character Classic
(Wiki; see the complete online translation by Nathan Sturman). A famous early example of this in art is in the Thin Stroke Calligraphy of the Thousand Character Essay (瘦金千字文 Shoujin Qianziwen) attributed to
Song Huizong, a complete version of which is online. Online one can also find a number of examples of calligraphy just for the four-character phrase by itself.
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