festival culture

  • Spring Festival Auspicious Scroll：Frozen Festivities in Ink

    Spring Festival Auspicious Scroll：Frozen Festivities in Ink

    Gu Zhengyi(顾正谊) (Chinese, lifespan: unknown)

    scholars in sable cluster around wine warmers while linen-clad servants stand frozen, unlit firecrackers dangling like Damocles’ sword. Hailed as “a pathological specimen of Ming genre painting.”