"Carp Leaping over Lai Hung

Paintings featured

1. Cinnabar and gold symphonic aesthetics: Cinnabar red koi carp and gold foil outlined ripples are the main theme, while lime green lychee leaves and reddish-red purple fruits form a polyphonic color palette, reproducing the essence of the Lingnan School of Painting’s “Water and Powder” technique.
2. Static and dynamic space-time narrative: nine koi carp swim in a “Big Dipper Seven Stars” formation, the main fish’s leaping posture frames the moment of breaking water, and the lychee branches are gnarled like dragons, concealing the time-space code of “turning into dragons in the year of the Dragon”.
3. Auspicious Symbol Theater: The number of fish “Nine Ru” is matched with the red fruit of lychee “Lishui”, the whirlpool on the surface of the water is in line with the numerology of “Hetu”, and the seal script of “Jiachen” appears in the veins of the leaves, building a multi-dimensional semantic field of auspiciousness.

Detailed depiction

• The dorsal fins of the main carp are dyed using the ancient method of “three alums and nine dyes”, with gold dust overlapping in the gradation of vermillion color, and the hand-engraved “cloud and thunder pattern” is visible in the backlight, while the eyes of the fish are glowing with malachite powder.
• Li-shaded subtlety: the fruit uses the “powdering method” to present a frosty texture, with a 0.3mm mouse brush outlining the cracked skin, and the “Bage pattern” of silver wire outlining the veins of the leaves is interspersed between the “nail-head and mouse-tail strokes”.
• The mystery of the water waves: 108 concentric arcs are drawn on the swirls with a modified version of the “mesh scarf chafing” method, and the northeast direction conceals the base map of the “Hui Zi Pattern”, while gold foil crumbs embellish the tips of the waves to mimic the starbursts of the sunlight refracted effect.

Artistic Value

• Revitalization of non-heritage skills: Restoration of the “mineral pigment grinding technique” of the Qing Dynasty, tested to contain cinnabar, andrographis and other eight treasures of minerals, and the light resistance reaches the international blue standard of grade 7, and was awarded the “Award for the Revitalization of Traditional Craftsmanship” in 2023.
• A model of fluid aesthetics: the dynamics of the fish has been certified by 3D fluid dynamics simulation, which has been included in the “Ink Digitization” project of Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts, and the curvature of the tail fin accurately matches the Reynolds number 2800-4500 turbulence model.
• Breakthrough in commercial aesthetics: Innovative fusion of the “Li Shi” element with traditional auspicious symbols, selected as a core exhibit in the “Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area Commercial Space Art Collection Program”.

Suitable Scene

• Commercial space: Corporate lobby “Feng Shui Bureau of Gathering Wealth” (the main fish is facing the southeast in the Xun position), VIP room of financial building (lychee and red fruits promote the “profit market” aura).
• Cultural space: Guangfu Culture Exhibition Center “Lingnan Fruit” theme exhibition, tea house “one cup, two pieces” cultural experience area.
• Home: TV background wall in living room (recommended to match with sour wood frame), study room (to stimulate the spirit of “Fish Transforms into Dragon”).

Purchase

1. Light management: installation of anti-ultraviolet laminated glass, LED light source color temperature is strictly controlled at 3200K, daily direct light ≤ 3 hours.
2. Maintenance Tips: Enable the electronic constant humidity cabinet (RH50%±5%) in the returning days, and maintain the serigraphy with lychee wood fumigation every year in Xiaoman.

Significance of the collection

Carp Leaping Li-Hong” is not only a three-dimensional “Lingnan Scenery”, but also a flowing code of wealth, in the glow of each golden scale is sealed “Fish Leaping Dragon Gate and Lilu Tong”, the essence of the business way of Guangfu. The collection of this scroll not only allows you to appreciate the beauty of painting and calligraphy, but also to receive wealth from all directions, showing the contemporary vitality of oriental aesthetics in a small space.