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Nine Songs 九歌圖   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist

Unknown
佚名

After Zhao Mengfu
倣趙孟頫
(1254–1322)
Title
Nine Songs
九歌圖
Description

The Metropolitan Museum of Art states:

The Nine Songs are lyrical, shamanistic incantations dedicated to nine classes of deities worshipped by the Chu people of south China during the first millennium B.C. The original text consists of eleven songs, ten of which are transcribed and illustrated here. The illustrations are preceded by a portrait of the poet Qu Yuan (343–277 B.C.), which is accompanied by an essay entitled "The Fisherman," recounting the poet's state of mind toward the end of his life.
Zhao Mengfu's paintings for the Nine Songs in the baimiao, or "white-drawing" style, are based on compositions by Li Gonglin (ca. 1041–1106) and were a primary source for later fourteenth-century paintings of this theme by Zhang Wu (active 1333–65) and others. Because the calligraphy in the album does not compare with the best of Zhao Mengfu's writing, it is probable that these leaves represent close, reliable copies of Zhao's important work, executed during the fourteenth century. One leaf, "The Lord of Clouds," is a later replacement (no earlier than the seventeenth century).
Date 14th century (?)
Medium Album of eleven paintings; ink on paper
Dimensions 10 3/8 x 6 1/4 in. (26.4 x 15.9 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Asian Art
Accession number
1973.121.15a–p
Credit line Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Fletcher Fund, 1973
Inscriptions

Chinese text, standard script:

秋蘭兮麋蕪，　　　 羅生兮堂下。
綠葉兮素枝，　　　 芳菲菲兮襲予。
夫人兮自有美女, 蓀何以兮愁苦。
秋蘭兮青青，　　　 綠葉兮紫莖。
滿堂兮美人，　　　 忽獨與余兮目成。
入不言兮出不辭，　 乘回風兮載雲旗。
悲莫悲兮生別離，　 樂莫樂兮新相知。
荷衣兮蕙帶，　　　 儵而來兮忽而逝。
夕宿兮帝郊，　　　 君誰須兮雲之際。
與女遊兮九河， 衝風至兮水揚波。
與女沐兮咸池，　 　晞女髮兮陽之阿。
望媺人兮未徠，　 　臨風怳兮浩歌。
孔蓋兮翠旍，　　 登九天兮撫彗星。
慫長劍兮擁幼艾，　 蓀獨宜兮為民正。
右少司命

English translation:

The autumn orchid and the deer-parsley
Grow in a carpet below the hall;
The leaves of green and the pure white flowers
Assail me with their wafted fragrance.
The autumn orchids bloom luxuriant,
With leaves of green and purple stems.
All the hall is filled with lovely women,
But his eyes swiftly sought me out from the rest.
Without a word he came in to me, without a word he left me:
He rode off on the whirlwind with cloud-banners flying.
No sorrow is greater than the parting of the living;
No happiness is greater than making new friendships.
Wearing a lotus coat with melilotus girdle,
Quickly he came and as quickly departed.
At night he will lodge in the High God’s precincts.
‘Whom are you waiting for at the cloud’s edge?’
I will wash my hair with you in the Pool of Heaven;
You shall dry your hair on the Bank of Sunlight.
I watch for the Fair One, but he does not come.
Wildly I shout my song into the wind.
With peacock canopy and kingfisher banner,
He mounts the ninefold heaven and grasps the Broom Star;
He brandishes his long sword, protecting young and old:
‘You only, Fragrant One, are worthy to be judge over men.’
To the right is ‘The Lesser Master of Fate’
Notes

The album comprises:

  • Leaf A
    Leaf A
  • Leaf B Portrait of Qu Yuan 屈原像
    Leaf B
    Portrait of Qu Yuan
    屈原像
  • Leaf C The Great Unity, God of the Eastern Sky 東皇太一
    Leaf C
    The Great Unity, God of the Eastern Sky
    東皇太一
  • Leaf D The Lord within the Clouds 雲中君
    Leaf D
    The Lord within the Clouds
    雲中君
  • Leaf E The Goddess of the Xiang 湘君
    Leaf E
    The Goddess of the Xiang
    湘君
  • Leaf F The Lady of the Xiang 湘夫人
    Leaf F
    The Lady of the Xiang
    湘夫人
  • Leaf G The Greater Master of Fate 大司命
    Leaf G
    The Greater Master of Fate
    大司命
  • Leaf H The Lesser Master of Fate 少司命
    Leaf H
    The Lesser Master of Fate
    少司命
  • Leaf I The Lord of the East 東君
    Leaf I
    The Lord of the East
    東君
  • Leaf J The River Earl 河伯
    Leaf J
    The River Earl
    河伯
  • Leaf K The Mountain Spirit 山鬼
    Leaf K
    The Mountain Spirit
    山鬼
  • Leaf L Hymn to the Fallen 國殤
    Leaf L
    Hymn to the Fallen
    國殤
... and leaf M, N, O, and P (consisting of colophons of a later date), which are not uploaded on Wikimedia Commons.
Source/Photographer

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/40511

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Nine Songs - album, after Zhao Mengfu (MET, 1973.121.15a–p)

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