Li Shida, New Year's Day in a Village at Stone Lake
and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1980.178 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Li Shida

New Year's Day in a Village at Stone Lake

1609

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
Album leaf; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions
58.4 × 73.7 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-114499

This rural scene presents typical activities of a New Year’s Day in which relatives and friends approach the house to convey their good wishes to the elders. Two boys in the courtyard light fire crackers, and servants in front of the main gate beat the gong to announce the guests. Inside the house, the hosts entertain their guests by offering hot wine and by writing New Year couplets to be hung on the gates welcoming the New Year. White cherry blossoms announce the spring. The water village at Stone Lake is characteristic of the Jiangnan region in southeast China. Born in Suzhou, the artist L…

Provenance

and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1980.178

Registry history

  • 1609 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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