Qinghe shuhua biao 清河書畫表

Qinghe miqie shuhua biao 清河秘篋書畫表 (Qinghe biqie shuhua biao 清河祕篋書畫表), short title Qinghe shuhua biao 清河書畫表, is a book on the works of famous calligraphers written by Zhang Chou 張丑 (1577-1643), who also wrote the book Qinghe shuhua fang 清河書畫舫.

The book lists, in the shape of a table, the calligraphies and paintings that Zhou's family had collected over five generations. The entries are arranged according to the date of creation but with schools or lineages of artists as the second criterion. The catalogue includes the artworks of 81 persons from the Jin 晉 (265-420) to the Ming period 明 (1368-1644), with 49 calligraphy models (tie 帖) and 150 paintings. The list also includes information on who had acquired or personally owned the artworks among the family members. However, many of the originals – among them works of Huang Tingjian 黃庭堅 (1045-1105) or Liu Songnian 劉松年 (d. c. 1225) - had been lost or sold off, and the catalogue does not represent the actual holdings of the Zhang family at that time.

Figure 1. Roster of the Qinghe shuhua biao 清河書畫表

The columns represent historical ages (shidai 時代), while the rows represent members of the family Zhou, beginning with (Zhou) Yuansu 周元素, (Zhou) Weiqing 周維慶 and his son (Zhou) He 周和, and ending at the bottom with (Zhou) Danjia 周誕嘉, the nephew of Zhou Chang (courtesy name Guangde 廣得, second-lowest row).

The text is found in the series Zhibuzuzhai congshu 知不足齋叢書, Siku quanshu 四庫全書, Cuilangganguan congshu 翠瑯玕館叢書, Shugu congchao 述古叢鈔, and the collection Zhangshi shuhua si biao 張氏書畫四表 (which includes Fashu minghua jianwen biao 法書名畫見聞表, Nanyang minghua biao 南陽名畫表, Nanyang fashu biao 南陽法書表, and Qinghe shuhua biao), published in 1909 by Wanyan Jingxian 完顏景賢.