A FAN PAINTED BY LONG JIU
A FAN PAINTED BY LONG JIU by Chin Kou river, Shandong Province, Northern China in early winter 1925, in the Shanhi school of painting, the leaf is painted with six chicks eating grain illustrating an ancient poem: once whilst Tsu Lu was following his master, he met an old man and asked him if he had seen his master and the old man replied, you with your ten fingers are not even able to sift the five types of grain--who is your master? Who could not select the right grain to sow? The five types are rice, two types of millet, wheat and lentils. The chicks illustrate their natural instinct to not of differentiate the five types of grain, the verso is decorated with calligraphy, with bamboo sticks, the guardsticks carved with K'ung Fu-ste (Confucius) and his disciple Tsu Lu, --13in. (33cm), Chinese, 1925 See Illustration
A FAN PAINTED BY LONG JIU
A FAN PAINTED BY LONG JIU by Chin Kou river, Shandong Province, Northern China in early winter 1925, in the Shanhi school of painting, the leaf is painted with six chicks eating grain illustrating an ancient poem: once whilst Tsu Lu was following his master, he met an old man and asked him if he had seen his master and the old man replied, you with your ten fingers are not even able to sift the five types of grain--who is your master? Who could not select the right grain to sow? The five types are rice, two types of millet, wheat and lentils. The chicks illustrate their natural instinct to not of differentiate the five types of grain, the verso is decorated with calligraphy, with bamboo sticks, the guardsticks carved with K'ung Fu-ste (Confucius) and his disciple Tsu Lu, --13in. (33cm), Chinese, 1925 See Illustration
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