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| Artist: Chen Xiu |
| Type: Gouache on
rice paper |
| Item No: JFB1002 |
| Size: 16 x 16 inches |
| Our Price: $135 |
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| Description: Chinese
New Year's Eve is the time for family reunion,
a banquet is usually served for the New Year's
Eve dinner. Fish and chickens are the main dishes
which have auspicious meanings and bring good luck
to the coming year. For interior decoration, upside
down Chinese character "Fortune" (pronounced
Fu) is always popular, which is hanging on the
window in this house. Paintings of fish and peonies
are on the wall above the traditional stove. An
incense burner above the stove blesses the family.
Red is the lucky color. So the red peppers are
hanging, and women wear red clothes. Plenty of
wines and fresh fish for the celebration of New
Year. Kids are firing firecrackers in the backyard
in snow. Big steamers are cooking delicious food,
mom is always the busiest one through the new year.
By the stove is a vat for water. A fisherman's
straw raincoat is hanging on the wall, and an old
wooden rack for towels and basins by the door.
This painting won a prize in the Excellent Art
Works Exhibition of Chinese Peasant in 1995. |
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