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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)
Artist
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.
Source/Photographer Zhongshan Going on Excursion. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
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