Minneapolis Institute of Art
Gourds
Zhao Yunhe
- Date
- 1932
- Medium
- Ink and color on paper
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
In Chinese popular culture, there has long been a convention of using plants or animals to embody certain propitious meanings. The image of melons-gourds in this case-connected one to another by vines, suggests generations of sons and grandsons stretching on without interruption. The pun comes from the word dai (belt)-the vine-linked melons-that provides a homophone on the word dai (generations). China, Asia
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