Greeting the New Year, 1734, Wang Rusheng, Chinese, 37 1/8 × 18 7/8 in. ( × cm) (image)97 5/8 × 30 1/2 in. (248 × cm) (mount, with roller), Ink and color on paper, China, 18th century, The bare trees and wintry sky in this precisely rendered scene indicate that the season is winter and the temperature cool. Children have gathered within the courtyard of a large household to greet the New Year morning with drums, harps, cymbals, and fire crackers. Attractive, easily understood, paintings like this were displayed throughout the New Year holiday season in China lending a festive air

---

Size: 3887px × 7561px
Location:
Photo credit: © Penta Springs / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 18th, , 248, 1734, activities, air, attractive, bare, celebratory, century, children, china, chinese, cm, color, cool, courtyard, crackers, cymbals, displayed, drums, easily, festive, fire, gathered, greet, greeting, harps, holiday, household, image, ink, large, lending, morning, mount, paintings, paper, precisely, rendered, roller, rusheng, scene, season, sky, temperature, trees, understood, wang, winter, wintry, year, ×