Yu zhi geng zhi tu, Vol. 2
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Volume 2 of an imperially commissioned Qing set of Gengzhi tu (pictures of tilling and weaving), a rice-farming series. The pages are woodblock-style engravings, each paired with Chinese poems, covering the sequence from soaking seed, ploughing, harrowing and transplanting through weeding, irrigation, harvest, threshing, winnowing, pounding, storing grain and offering thanks to the gods. One plate (page 18) shows a woman weaving at a loom under a pavilion, with a verse on weaving, and the last page carries a title strip for the weaving pictures. The text is entirely Chinese, and the volume has no weaving drafts.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- 1700s
- Language
- Chinese
- Pages
- 25
- Archive notes
- Landscape mode
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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