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Zhongshan Going on Excursion 中山出遊圖   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Gong Kai
龔開
(1222–1307)
Title
Zhongshan Going on Excursion
中山出遊圖
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"The artist's inscription explains that this handscroll depicts the legendary hero Zhong Kui, known as the Demon Queller, setting out on a hunting exhibition with his sister. According to legend, when Emperor Xuanzong (reigned 712–56) fell ill with fever, he dreamt that a small demon broke into the palace. Suddenly, a large man calling himself Zhong Kui appeared, attacked the demon, and devoured it; when the emperor awoke, his illness had miraculously vanished. The emperor summoned a court painter to make a portrait of the figure in his dream, and the painting was distributed throughout the empire as a talisman to expel harmful spirits. By the tenth century, other popular legends and practices began to accrue around the figure of Zhong Kui; for example, he acquired both a wife and younger sister.
In Gong Kai's humorous and imaginative painting, Zhong Kui and his sister are shown riding in sedan chairs. A retinue of slave-demons accompany them and carry Zhong Kui's sword, bundles of household goods, pots of wine, and smaller demons they have captured."
—Freer and Sackler Galleries
Date Late 13th – early 14th century
Medium Ink on paper
Dimensions H x W: 32.8 x 169.5 cm (12 15/16 x 66 3/4 in)
institution QS:P195,Q1075126
Accession number
F1938.4
Place of creation China during the Yuan dynasty
Credit line Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
References
  • Zhongshan Going on Excursion. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
  • Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07013-6. Page 142.
Source/Photographer Cropped from the original file (direct link) located at:
Zhongshan Going on Excursion. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
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