Antique Painting Of The Qing Dynasty Court Painter Ding Guanpeng Reason

The painting which was created by Ding Guanpeng that named The goddess of the Lo River was now collected by the National Palace Museum of Taipei. From the contrast with the original one, I found some differences between them. Ding guanpeng used the some common ways that belonged to his age when he had copied the original one. Such differences appeared from the copy of the figures, animals, boats and some other objects. As one of the most important court painter of QianLong, Ding Guanpeng did more than 30 pieces of fang' gu works. And the question founded from the The goddess of the Lo River are is still not the single one. Here in this paper there are two questions will be answered: one is why did Ding Guanpeng copy like this? And how did he copy the original one? From this process the meaning of the creative imitation will also be described.