Cleveland Museum of Art
Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Listening to the Qin
Hua Yan
- Date
- 1745
- Medium
- album leaf; ink and light color on paper
- Culture
- China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The figure in pink is playing a qin , a seven-stringed zither. The sound of the musical instrument symbolizes the harmony between humanity and nature; literati are often depicted playing qin in landscape settings.
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