Whose treasure is the Eight Scenes Palace Lantern?

Lang Shining, a painter in the Qing Dynasty, painted the Eight Scenes of Palace Lantern and Hundred Scenes in the South of the Yangtze River. With the theme of Nanjing Bajing Palace, the scroll depicts the beautiful natural landscape and the life scenes of the people in the south of the Yangtze River.

Lang Shining was a famous painter in Qing Dynasty. He is proficient in western painting and Chinese painting, and is good at various painting techniques. He combined western painting skills with China traditional painting, and created a unique painting style. Palace Lantern with Eight Scenes and Hundred Scenes in the South of the Yangtze River is one of Lang Shining's representative works and a classic in the history of China painting, which has become one of the treasures of China's traditional painting art.

The scroll is 23 meters long and 0.27 meters wide, divided into 1 to 20 segments, and it is a vertical roller painting. At the top of the scroll is the Chinese character "Palace Lantern with Eight Scenes in the South of the Yangtze River", at the bottom is the inscription "Lang Shining's footprint of painting and calligraphy in the south of the Yangtze River was written in Nanjing in October", and at the upper right corner is the inscription of Qing Dynasty official Zhang Jiuling.

The whole painting starts from Bajing Palace and depicts the natural scenery of the Yangtze River basin, including stone walls, twilight, peaks, lotus flowers, fishing villages, weeping willows, green hills and misty rain, as well as cultural scenes in the south of the Yangtze River, such as streets, teahouses, wineries, fishing boats singing late and tourists watching the scenery.

"Eight Scenes of Palace Lantern and Hundred Scenes in Jiangnan" is a wonderful work of art, and the scenes it depicts have high artistic value, which not only conveys the natural scenery in Jiangnan, but also conveys the life and feelings of Jiangnan people. It has become a classic of China's traditional painting, and is known as "the hundredth scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, a masterpiece of ancient and modern painting".