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Hansongge tanyi suolu 寒松閣談藝瑣錄

May 3, 2023 © Ulrich Theobald

Hansongge tanyi suolu 寒松閣談藝瑣錄 (also written 寒松閣談藝璅錄) "Petty records of art discussion of Cold Pine House", original name Jingxinglu 景行錄, is a book on painting written by Zhang Mingke 張鳴珂 (1829-1908), courtesy name Yuce 玉珊 or Gongshu 公束, style Hansong Laoren 寒松老人, from Jiaxing 嘉興, Zhejiang.

The plan for this book emerged from the acquaintance with Wu Changshuo 吳昌碩 (1844-1927) from Shanghai, with whom Zhang planned to write a kind of sequel to Jiang Baoling's 蔣寶齡 (1779-1840) book Molin jinhua 墨林今話. The book of 6 juan length was finished in 1908, but Zhang died before it was published. The publication was then realized in 1910 by Wu Shoufu 吳受福 (1840-1919), who also changed the original name Jingxinglu to the common one.

The book includes the biographies and discussions of artworks of more than 330 painters of the 19th century. The chapters give information on the strengths of each artist, inform about "schools" or teacher-disciple relations, mention notes on paintings, and discuss the authenticity of individual artworks, and also stress their achievements in the realm of calligraphy and poetry – two fields that are actually beyond the area of painting. Quote interesting, however, is the history of art clubs in the Shanghai region like the Haipai 海派 "Shanghai School".

The book was republished in 1923 by the Zhonghua Shuju 中華書局.

Sources:
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Tao Mingjun 陶明君, ed. (1993). Zhongguo hualun cidian 中國畫論辭典 (Changsha: Hunan chubanshe), 324.
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