Highlights
Albums of the Paintings on the Odes of the State of Bin from Shijing (The Classics of Poetry)
- Nationality/Period
Qing Dynasty
- Materials
Silk Fabric - Silk
- Category
Culture / Art - Letter & Paintings - Paintings - painting
- Dimensions
57.3x316.0cm(Scroll painting)
- Accession Number
Gu 2857
These paintings depict the processes of crop farming and sericulture activities. They were intended to inform the king about how people engaged in diverse aspects of everyday working life, such as crop farming, sericulture, and cloth weaving, and to encourage people to participate in such work.