Bian Shoumin (
Chinese
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: 边寿民; 1684–1752; original name Bian Weiqi
hinese: 边维祺, courtesy name as Yi-gong (颐公) or Jian-seng (漸僧), sobriquet as Weijian Laoren (苇间老人, or "Old man among Reeds"), is a famed
Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
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painter in
Qing Dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...
. A native Shanyang (now
Huai'an
Huai'an (), formerly called Huaiyin () until 2001, is a prefecture-level city in the central part of Jiangsu province in Eastern China. Huai'an is situated almost directly south of Lianyungang, southeast of Suqian, northwest of Yancheng, alm ...
), he was one of the "
Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou
Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou () is the name for a group of eight Chinese painters active in the eighteenth-century, who were known in the Qing Dynasty for rejecting the orthodox ideas about painting in favor of a style deemed expressive and individ ...
" and famous for painting wild geese, which gains a name Bianyan (边雁, or "Bian geese").
See also
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Geese in Chinese poetry
Geese (genus ''Anser'') are an important motif in Chinese poetry. Examples of goose imagery have an important place in Chinese poetry ranging from the ''Shijing'' and the ''Chu Ci'' poets through the poets of Han poetry and later poets of Tang poet ...
References
*邊頤公花卉冊 (Bian Yigong Hua Hui Ce). 高弋虬藏, 高野候鉴定 (Gao Yiqiu, Gao Yehou). 上海: 中華書局, 民国24年
935(Shanghai: Zhonghua Shu Ju, Minguo 24 nian). OCLC Number: 52510593.
*邊頤公花果草蟲冊(邊壽民繪) (Bian Yigong Hua Guo Cao Chong Ce). 上海: 有正書局, 192-? (Shanghai: You Zheng Shu Ju). OCLC Number: 708687964.
*清邊壽民蘆雁畫冊 (Qing Bian Shoumin Lu Yan Hua Ce). 台北:漢華文化事業股份有限公司, 民國61
972
Year 972 ( CMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Spring – Emperor John I Tzimiskes divides the Bulgarian territories, recent ...
(Taobei: Han hua wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si, Minguo 61). OCLC Number: 33939849 (OCoLC) 78526603.
*邊壽民 (Bian Shoumin). 馬鴻增撰文 (Ma Hongzeng authored). 天津: 天津人民美術出版社, 2000 (Tianjin: Tianjin Renmin Meishu Chubanshe). OCLC Number: 44582447.
External links
Bian Shoumin in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkBian Shoumin in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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1684 births
1752 deaths
Qing dynasty painters
Painters from Huai'an