A Survey to the Northern-Song Ceramic Products for Trade Overseas

Liu Wei

The article Chinese appears Abstract: The ceramic trade overseas was never suspended but advancing steadily in from page 004 to 020. the Northern-Song dynasty, during which trading ceramics of the early-middle period was developing in a gradual way based on the Five Dynasties and the early Song Dynasty, with the Yue Kilns’ green-glazed wares and the Jingdezhen Kilns’ white-glazed wares making the major goods for export. In the late-middle period, the manufacturers of ceramics grew fast in Fujian and Guangdong region with the intention of dominating the overseas markets and they succeeded, of which Guangzhou, Chaozhou and Quanzhou as the suppliers for the Southeast Asia and the West Indian Ocean while Fuzhou as the sources for the markets of Japan. By the late Northern Song dynasty, the ceramic production has been expanding to the Southern Fujian and Guangxi whose green-white-glazed ware was in blossom, accompanied by the rising of the green-glazed ware in Longquan. In addition, the ceramic products of Chaozhou and Zhangzhou were also exported to Japan. By then, the ceramic products for export had made more types from multiple sources.

Keywords: Northern-Song Dynasty; ceramics for trade; the ceramic road

The Open Door’s Glamour: Reflection on the Open-Door Theme Imagery of the Song-Jin Brick-Chambered Tomb

Ding Yu

The article Chinese appears Abstract: The theme of open-door images in the Song-Jin brick chambered tomb has been from page 021 to 029. a heat topic among the scholars, yet the disputes remain probably due to the expectation for all-round interpretation, as is the usual case in iconological studies. By reviewing the ever studies proceeding from different angles on the ‘Open Door’ thematically, the thesis sums up that what matters lies in the understanding of the iconological context, logic construction and the uses of historical literature that work meaningfully in the specific representation. It is, therefore, recommended that the iconological analysis of the open-door imagery start from its form and composition, times and regions, which could make a difference in insight into the ‘Open Door’ scene from physical and visual points of view.

Keywords: the Song-Jin tomb; ‘open-door’ theme; form

The Song Bronze Mirror with the Tang Reign Mark ---- A Case Study of the Song-Dynasty Arts and Crafts Modeling after Antiques for Profits

Fan Shuying

108 Palace Museum Journal No.3,2021 vol.227 Abstract: Following the bronze mirror marked with the Chinese characters of ‘ 永徽元 The article Chinese appears 年 ’( Yonghui 1st Year) on both sides just mentioned in the Tang Mirrors by Archaeologist from page 030 to 044. Umehara Sueji, a large number of bronze mirrors with the reign marks of the Tang dynasty such as ‘ 贞观元年 ’(Zhenguan 1st Year), ‘ 贞观十六年 ’(Zhenguan 16th Year), ‘ 永徽元 年 ’( Yonghui 1st Year) , ‘ 上元二年 ’( Shangyuan 2nd Year) , ‘ 大和元年 ’( Dahe 1st Year) have been discovered in archaeological excavation and historical relics acquisition, which used to be in style considered as the typical representative of the Tang-dynasty bronze mirror art. However, it is studied that these Tang reign-marked bronze mirrors are not the same in shape, style in calligraphy and ornamentation as the ones of the Tang Dynasty, but close to those of the Song Dynasty. Compared with the Tang-styled bronze mirror popular in the Song dynasty, these Tang reign-marked mirrors without manufacturers or craftsman’s surname are actually the products of the Song Dynasty, high-quality with distinct motifs. The mirror manufacturers expected more profits from the bronze mirrors with the reign marks of earlier dynasty this way.

Keywords: the Tang and Song dynasties; bronze mirror; the products after the style of antiques; age

An Interpretation to the Inscription of Shou Tripod ( 鼎 )

Wei Xinying

Abstract: The newly recorded Shou Tripod ( 鼎 , shòu dǐng in Chinese pinyin) is dated The article Chinese appears back to the early-middle period of the Western-Zhou Dynasty. It bears the first-discovered from page 045 to 049. inscription about women taking official post and the phrases of ‘ 退事’ (retreat, tuì shì) and ‘ 内 宫 ’ (inner court; nèi gōng). The content covering the internal systems referring to the Western- Zhou noble families, awarding and appointing women with official post, the consciousness of gender status and other aspects arouses further thought over the history of the Western- Zhou Dynasty among scholars.

Keywords: inner court ( 内宫 , nèi gōng); woman; making of bronze vessel

The Antiques Southward Migration as ‘the Legacy Route’ and ‘the Legacy Route’ Concept Reconsidered

Xia Caiyi Duan Yong

Abstract: The strategically transferring antiques southward 1930s-1950s is documented The article Chinese appears as a great migration of heritages in history aiming for protecting the cultural treasures of the from page 050 to 057. Palace Museum and other institutes, with a great deal of historical remains and newspaper reports left in more than 20 cities it passed. In nearly 100 years after that, the changing cognition towards war and peace, heritage value, cultural identity endows the event with historical value and spiritual and cultural meaning increasingly. So it suggests reviewing

English abstract of the articles 109 the event from the point of ‘heritage route’ to make the concept of ‘heritage route’ more meaningful.

Keywords: heritage route; the antique migration southward; heritage protection; historical monuments

A Probe into the Issues Concerning the City-Wall Bricking of the Early Ming Dynasty

Wu Wenda Ji Yu

The article Chinese appears Abstract: Based on the statistics for the bricked city wall of the Southern Zhili, Huguang from page 058 to 066. and Jiangxi provinces of the early Ming dynasty, this thesis makes an overall probe into the issues concerning the relative cost, production and acquisition of bricks for uses, that is, to remove the bricks here and transport them elsewhere to build brick city walls. It comes to the following conclusion: whether the city wall was bricked or not was decided to large extent by the city’s status and the military situation it was in.

Keywords: the early Ming Dynasty; the bricked city wall; the production and requisition of wall bricks

A More Research on the Organizational Evolution of Baoquan Bureau of the Qing Dynasty

Zhang Anhao

The article Chinese appears Abstract: Baoquan Bureau, the central mintage authority of the Qing government, grew from page 067 to 078. up as a key part in the history of the Qing dynasty in politics and economics. The analysis starting from the Ming to the Qing Dynasties successively (when the Qing was outside Shanhaiguan Pass) involves the following aspects: Baoquan Bureau’s role in the government and when the Tianming reign produced its own coinage, by the way, gaining the historical material on the Qing government importing copper from Korea at that time. Secondly, the reasons that the Qing Yongzheng’s government divided one mint under Baoquan Bureau into four, and the story about the fifth mint in function. It is the first time to study Zhong Chang (the mint located in the center and surrounded by the other four ones in the east, west, south and north respectively) as an independent unit detached from the Bureau. Thirdly, the Baoquan Fenju (Baoquan Bureau Branch) and the Baoquanju Fenzhijigou (Division of Baoquan Bureau) are not the same conceptually. Lastly, when Baoquan Bureau was disbanded is confirmed in the thesis.

Keywords: the Qing Dynasty; Baoquan Bureau; evolution; five mints (located in the direction of east, west, south and north respectively besides the central one); Baoquan Fenju (Division of Baoquan Bureau)

110 Palace Museum Journal No.3,2021 vol.227 A Textual Research on the Postscript by ‘Kuang Shan Kuai Weng’ in Cai Xiang’s ‘Poetry Calligraphy Handscroll in Running Script’(Xíng Shū Zì Shū Shī)

Guan Jian

Abstract: Cai Xiang’s Poetry Calligraphy Handscroll in Running Script (Xíng Shū Zì Shū Shī The article Chinese appears in Chinese pinyin) is the representative of his calligraphy works, which is collected in the from page 079 to 084. Palace Museum. There are a couple of pieces of postscripts of dynasties in the masterpiece, one of which is signed by Kuang Shan Kuai Weng, who is rarely mentioned in any literature. The general analysis of the preface and postscripts and the related documents suggests that Kuan Shan Kuai Weng is the signature of Wu Qin of the early Ming dynasty, who was asked to write by Guan Na, the collector of the calligraphy work. What is analyzed above presents the circulation of Cai Xiang’s Poetry Calligraphy Handscroll in Running Script in the early Ming dynasty, which is significant for the study of the painting and calligraphy history of that time.

Keywords: Cai Xiang; Wu Qin; the Poetry Calligraphy Handscroll in Running Script (Xíng Shū Zì Shū Shī); Kuang Shan Kuai Weng

Xianyu Shu’s Appraisal of Paintings and Calligraphies and His Seals

Jiang Qiumeng

Abstract: In the early Yuan times, the Jiangnan region, especially Hangzhou, where Yimin The article Chinese appears (the adherent of the previous Dynasty) and scholars gathered, developed into the major from page 085 to 101. market of historical painting and calligraphy, equally paralleling Beijing anyway. While living in Hangzhou, Xianyu Shu got good chances to collect and appreciate many masterpieces in the possession of master connoisseurs Zhou Mi, Wang Zhi, Qiao Kuicheng, Guo Tianxi and Zhao Mengfu. The thesis tends to figure out Xianyu Shu’s appreciation and appraisal of painting and calligraphy as well as his philosophy on calligraphy from his experience and his seals as well.

Keywords: Xianyu Shu; the paintings and calligraphies in one’s appreciation; seals

An Overview of ‘the International Forum on the History of Ming and Qing Dynasties in China in Commemoration of the 600th Anniversary of the Forbidden City’

Zhang Lisuo The article Chinese appears from page 102 to 107.

English abstract of the articles 111 Contents

Palace Museum Journal NO.3, 2021 vol.227

004 A Survey to the Northern-Song 058 A Probe into the Issues Ceramic Products for Trade Concerning the City-Wall Overseas Bricking of the Early Ming Liu Wei Dynasty Wu Wenda Ji Yu 021 The Open Door’s Glamour: Reflection on the Open-Door 067 A More Research on the Theme Imagery of the Song-Jin Organizational Evolution of Brick-Chambered Tomb Baoquan Bureau of the Qing Ding Yu Dynasty Zhang Anhao 030 The Song Bronze Mirror with the Tang Reign Mark ---- A Case 079 A Textual Research on the Study of the Song-Dynasty Postscript by ‘Kuang Shan Kuai Arts and Crafts Modeling after Weng’ in Cai Xiang’s ‘Poetry Antiques for Profits Calligraphy Handscroll in Running Fan Shuying Script’ (Xíng Shū Zì Shū Shī) Guan Jian 045 An Interpretation to the Inscription of Shou Tripod ( 鼎) 085 Xianyu Shu’s Appraisal of Wei Xinying Paintings and Calligraphies and His Seals 050 The Antiques Southward Jiang Qiumeng Migration as ‘the Legacy Route’ and ‘the Legacy Route’ Concept 102 An Overview of ‘the International Reconsidered Forum on the History of Ming Xia Caiyi Duan Yong and Qing Dynasties in China in Commemoration of the 600th Anniversary of the Forbidden City’ Zhang Lisuo

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