Studies On The Eightieth Birthday Celebration Painting Of Qianlong Emperor

As a mirror of Qianlong eightieth birthday celebration, the Eightieth Birthday Celebration Painting of Qianlong Emperor is of great value in studying the politic、 economy、culture、religion and even arts of the late years of Qianlong dynasty. The abstract of the paper is as follows:This paper firstly explains the reason to chose the Eightieth Birthday Celebration Painting of Qianlong Emperor as research subjects, combs the research status of birthday celebration paintings of Qing dynasty, and represents the methods of the research.On the basis of this, the paper introduces the origin and the development of Chinese ancient birthday celebration customs both in the folk and royal, especially the royal birthday celebration and birthday celebration paintings of Qing dynasty. Then comes the subject of the paper——the Eightieth Birthday Celebration painting of Qianlong. The following is the keypoint of the whole paper——takes the Eightieth Birthday Celebration Painting of Qianlong Emperor as example to study the drawing time、the possible artist group、the characteristics of the painting and some other related issues.To solve these problems, it’s of great necessity to study the painting system of Qing dynasty and the other birthday celebration paintings to determine the drawing time of it. Then, the upcoming section questions and refutes the point that Leng Mei is the drawer of the painting by the textual research on the birth and death year of Leng Mei. On this basis, the possible drawers of the painting were finally roughly confirmed by the analysis of active and famous royal drawers of Qianlong dynasty and the important royal engravings’drawers. After that, the article deals with the unique features of the Eightieth Birthday Celebration Painting of Qianlong and attempts to dig deeper into the institutions of Qianlong dynasty behind the painting’s features.Study methods determine the quality of the paper. This paper synthetically utilizes many methods, including original file analysis method, painting and history mutual corroboration method, cross-reference method and so on.