There is a painting within the painting "Who is looking at Chinese painting"

This book displays many paintings within paintings, aiming to illustrate that the people in the paintings are admiring the paintings. It is these people in the paintings that have influenced the development of painting.

The gentry influenced the expression of Chinese paintings, the emperor "decided which portraits were real paintings", merchants changed the status of painters in Chinese paintings, the nation restarted traditional techniques in Chinese paintings, and the people influenced The direction of painting style.

Picture 1: "Painting" from Du Jin's "Tang Eighteen Scholars"

Picture 2: Anonymous "Tang Eighteen Scholars", 17th century, three vertical scrolls, silk design Ink and color, ivory scroll, 96.2cm×57.7cm, Yale University Art Museum

Reading, appreciating paintings, listening to the piano, and playing chess

Picture: Xie Huan's "Xingyuan Gathering" "Illustration" (detail), circa 1437, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image: "Encyclopedia of Ancient History" from "Yueman Qingyou Album" by Chen Mei, ink and color on silk, 37cm × 31.8cm, Palace Museum

Anonymous "One is Two", 1745-1750, ink and color on paper, 77cm×147.2cm, Palace Museum

"One is Two" 》retains Qianlong's seal, and the emperor personally wrote a short poem reflecting the truth and falsehood.

Tang Dai's "Taihang Mountains", National Palace Museum, Taipei.

The "Taihang Mountains" hand scroll is only seven centimeters high. It was placed in the emperor's "Duobao Pavilion", a small and exquisite display box for curios, which was a form of palace entertainment.

Anonymous court painter "Palace Scenes and Figures", Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, late 18th century, ink and color on silk, gold foil, 40cm × 37cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Cang Shining, Ding Guanpeng "Hongli Viewing Paintings", 1746-ca. 1750, 135.4cm×62cm, Palace Museum

Lang Shining's "Kazakh Tribute Horses", 1757, 45cm×257cm, Guimet National Museum of Asian Art, Paris

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Wang Hui (1632-1717) and his assistant "Kangxi Southern Tour" Volume 3 "Jinan to Mount Tai" (detail), 1698, hand scroll, 67.9cm×1393.8cm, Metropolitan Museum

Xu Yang's "Prosperity of Gusu" (detail), 1759, 39cm×1241cm, Liaoning Provincial Museum

Fang Shishu and Ye Zhenchu's "Nine Days in the Monastery" (detail), 1743 Year, hand scroll, 33.5cm×893cm, Cleveland Museum of Art

Qiu Ying’s copy of Zhang Zeduan’s “Along the River During the Qingming Festival” (detail), ink and color on silk, 30.5cm×987.5cm, Liaoning Provincial Museum