The Lotus Ripple Fish Sheet Music

Paintings featured

1. Symphony of Ink and Green: Based on Song Dynasty courtyard painting, the painting incorporates the bone-less technique to render the soft texture of the lotus petals, while the vermillion-dyed koi are like flowing flames, forming the visual rhythm of “a thousand red dots among ten thousand green bushes” among the green lotus leaves.
2. Philosophy of static and yin-yang: the static Zen of the duckweed and the S-shaped swimming track of the koi carp form a Tai Chi layout; the water surface is outlined with “netting” fine brush strokes to create ripples, concealing the “Six Contracts of Spring” auspicious pattern in the invisible water waves.
3. Seasonal Vitality Theater: The lotus flower in bud, in bloom and in full bloom is a metaphor for the cycle of life; the nine koi carp take the auspiciousness of “Nine Ru”; and the vortex track formed by the swarms of fish resembles the numerical and physical map of “Hetu”.

Detailed depiction

• Illusion of scales: The dorsal fins of the koi are painted using the ancient method of “three dyes and nine halos”, with gold powder highlighting the gradation of vermillion color, and the special effect of waves formed by alum crystals can be seen in the white part of the fish’s abdomen, which makes it look like a live fish breaking the paper when viewed in the backlight.
• Lotus Rhythm Microcosm: The blooming lotus flowers are painted with “silk hair chapping”, and the pollen particles are suspended by the “powdering method”; in the holes of the withered lotus leaves, there is a micro-engraved seal of the “A-Chen” period.
• The water pattern is a secret language: the ripples on the surface of the water allude to the directions of the “Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams”, and the inscription of “Zi Fei Yu” in the white space in the northeast, together with the seal of “Knowing the Fish’s Joy” in the southwest corner, form a philosophical dialog field in the style of Zhuang Zhou.

Artistic Value

• Song Rhythm Revitalization Model: The “water accumulation method” of the lotus leaf reproduces the mastery of Lin Chun’s “Fruit Ripening Fowl Picture” of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the “eight methods of eye-dotting” of the koi carp’s eyes inherits the mantle of Liu Bei’s “Falling Flowers and Swimming Fish Picture” of the Northern Song Dynasty, which is listed as a model for teaching and research by the Department of Calligraphy and Paintings of the Forbidden City.
• Integration of auspicious symbols: Nine fish harmonized with “Nine Ru” is taken from the Book of Poetry, and the lotus seeds are a metaphor for “having many sons in a row”, which was selected as the first batch of coded works in the “Digital Gene Bank of Oriental Auspicious Patterns” in 2018.
• Ink Dynamic Revolution: The quantum state of water patterns is realized through the “Alum Water Trace Retention Method”, and the animation of koi swimming around can be triggered under AR scanning, which was awarded the “Transmedia Traditional Innovation Award” by the London Art Biennale.

Suitable Scene

• Literary space: new Chinese tea room with bamboo roller blinds, museums and bookstores art wall, Zen bed and breakfast entrance screen.
• Business space: Feng Shui bureau of financial building (fish head facing southeast to attract wealth), “Chinese Imagery” theme area in the lobby of foreign hotels.
• Educational space: Teaching aids for the Art Academy’s Gongbi course, and the Cultural Center’s “Revitalization of Non-Heritage” digital interactive booth.

Purchase Information

1. Light and shadow code: We recommend using adjustable color temperature LED light box (2700K-4000K), morning and evening mode automatically switch to simulate the natural light rhythm of the lotus pond.
2. Painting maintenance secret: Longjing tea soup steam flick the picture during the rainy season to keep the mineral pigment active; sandalwood frame with built-in camphor wood anti-insect module.

Collector’s significance

The Lotus Ripple Fish Music is not only a three-dimensional illustration of the Book of Poetry, but also a sealed version of “A Free Journey”, in which the wisdom of “Zi Fei Yu” flows in every ripple of the water, waiting for a person who is destined to see the true nature of the symbiosis of heaven and earth in viewing the painting.