Not to be confused with Qiao Xuan.

Qian Xuan (simplified Chinese: 钱选; traditional Chinese: 錢選; pinyin: Qián Xuǎn; Wade–Giles: Ch'ien Hsüan; 1235-1305) courtesy name Shun Ju (舜举), pseudonyms Yu Tan (玉潭, "Jade Pool"), Xi Lan Weng (习嬾翁), and Zha Chuan Weng (霅川翁) ) was a Chinese painter from Hu Zhou (湖州) (the present day Wuxing District in Zhejiang) during the late Song dynasty and early Yuan dynasty.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Works
• 3 Notes
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Biography

Qian Xuan started as an aspiring scholar-official during the rule of the Southern Song (960–1279). However, he had difficulty climbing the ranks of officialdom. When the Mongol-founded Yuan Dynasty took over the southern regions of China in 1276, he effectively gave up on the idea of a civil administration career. In 1286 his friend Zhao Mengfu found and accepted a position, and so for a time it seemed he could as well. However, he refused on patriotic grounds, while he citing old age in order to avoid difficulties. He nevertheless was considered a Song loyalist.

Qian Xuan's life after 1276 was devoted to painting, and he became noted as a "fur and feathers" painter. He was also adept at bird-and-flower painting, character painting, and landscape painting (shan shui). He is known for landscapes that hinted at a longing for a return of native Chinese rule, such as in the work Home Again. He mixed Song realism with an archaic Tang style.

Works

• Wang Xizhi, by Qian Xuan (1235-1305 AD)

• Yang Guifei Mounting a Horse, by Qian Xuan (1235-1305 AD)

• Early Autumn

Notes

References

• Masterpieces of Chinese Art (page 87), by Rhonda and Jeffrey Cooper, Todtri Productions, 1997. ISBN:1-57717-060-1
• Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (辞海编辑委员会). Ci hai (辞海). Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she (上海辞书出版社), 1979.

External links

Media related to Qian Xuan at Wikimedia Commons

• Qian Xuan and his Painting Gallery at China Online Museum
• Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with three of his paintings
• Early Autumn
• Sung and Yuan paintings, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Qian Xuan (see list of paintings)

Culture

• Society
• Religion
• Poetry
• Five Great Kilns
  • Ding ware
  • Ge ware
  • Guan ware
  • Jun ware
  • Ru ware
• Longquan celadon
• Cizhou ware
• Qingbai ware
• Yaozhou ware
• Jian ware
• Great Bodhisattva of Zhengding
• Along the River During the Qingming Festival
• Four Great Books of Song
• Record of Tea
• Dongjing Meng Hua Lu

Economy

• Wang Anshi (1021–1086)
• Joint-stock company
• Banknote
  • Jiaozi
  • Guanzi
  • Huizi
• Southern Song dynasty coinage
• Champa rice
• Nanhai One
• Zhu Fan Zhi

Science and technology

• Gunpowder
  • Gunpowder weapons
  • Wujing Zongyao
• Coke
• Early Bessemer process
• Endless power transmitting chain drive
• Astronomical clock
• Movable type
• Comp*
• Pound lock
• Dry dock
• Watertight bulkhead
• Fishing reel
• Tianchi basin
• Horner's method
• Architecture
  • Liaodi Pagoda
  • Yingzao Fashi
• Forensic entomology
  • Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified
• Dream Pool Essays