As early as the Xuanhe period in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a record of Han Xizai's banquet in the book Xuanhe Painting Spectrum, which was compiled by the government and recorded in the palace.
Xuanhe Map holds that it is immoral for Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty, to order people to "write personal insults of courtiers" and should be "read and discarded", but this picture was later included in the imperial painting library of the Northern Song Dynasty. Since then, collectors of past dynasties have been eager for the "Han Xizai Night Banquet".
The earliest seal on Han Xizai's Night Banquet was Zhu Wen Hu Lu Yin, which was built by Shi, the prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty. According to textual research, Shao Xun is the earliest collection seal of Han Xizai's night banquet, and Shi is the first private collector of Han Xizai's night banquet.
Across the water in front of the scroll, there is a broken inscription in the Southern Song Dynasty, which reads: Happy and clear, for the heavenly officials. ...
These faintly visible inscriptions have about 20 words. After the volume, there is a passage written anonymously by the Southern Song Dynasty, which has been handed down as the earliest inscription "Han Xizai's Practice" in "The Night Banquet of Han Xizai". It is said that the front and back ends were inscribed by Wei Shi and Wang Hao.
In the mid-Yuan Dynasty, Dong Tang, an appraiser of calligraphy and painting in the Yuan Dynasty, recorded Han Xizai's "The Night Banquet" for the first time in "Flowers". In the middle and late Yuan Dynasty, the painter Yu 1326 wrote 32 lines of seven-character ancient poems on the postscript of this painting, and stamped them with the seals of "Yan", "Gong" and "Ban". In addition, the postscript part of the picture scroll also has the inscription of the anonymous person in Yuan Dynasty and the owner of Jiyuzhai. And since the Yuan Dynasty, many books have been found in descriptive books.
During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, calligrapher Cheng Nanyun and banquet official Tai Changqing signed a line of regular script at the beginning of Han Xizai's night banquet. In addition, there is the seal of Wang, a scholar of Ming Dynasty.
At the end of Ming and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Sun Chengze, a scholar at that time, wrote a book titled "The Story of a Boxer Selling Summer", which recorded the picture of Han Xizai's banquet. But this painting was in the hands of a relative of Wang Duo, a minister and painter in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. When Wang Duo appreciated the "Han Xizai's Night Banquet", he especially appreciated it, so he left a postscript at the end of the volume: the painting method was originally from the Tang Dynasty, and there was no reference for it, so Qin should be regarded as a treasure. Wang Duo's problem. ..... Send a message to the mysterious, just say it. Watching and simulating Guo Fenyang depends on Zhuangzi as a micro fulcrum. Wang was hidden by an old relative, so he was good at protecting it.
Since then, Liang Qingbiao, a famous bibliophile in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, has successively printed Tang Village in Hebei, Cangyanzi, Jiaolin, Jiaolin Jushi and Liang Qingbiao on his paintings.
During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Han Xizai's Night Banquet was collected by painters and collectors in the Qing Dynasty, and Luo Song stamped the painting with the seal of "Shangqiu Luo Song Verifying the Truth". A few years later, Luo Song's son, Song Zhi, also left seals on this painting, such as "Echoes of the West Field", "Xiao Wei Cottage Painting" and "Bhikkhu". During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, General Nian Gengyao wrote a postscript on the painting after he got the picture of Han Xizai's Banquet, followed by Ban Weizhi's postscript: What Han Xizai did was a miracle. This hardly wants to solve people. Ji Yuzhai's Master View and Inscription.
At the same time, Nian Gengyao has a "Shuangfeng" collection seal on the back of the picture. It is said that after Nian Gengyao was sentenced to fall out of favor in 1726, the picture of Han Xizai's banquet was collected by the Qing Palace, and the "Twin Peaks" on the painting was immediately dug up by the royal family.
In the early years of Qianlong, Han Xizai's banquet was recorded in the large-scale document "The First Collection of Shiqu Baodi" compiled by the court at that time, and the painting was transferred from private collection to the secret collection of the Qing court.
Emperor Qianlong loved the banquet in Han Xizai. He personally signed the seal script at the beginning of the scroll, leaving behind Gan, Long, Qianlong Appreciation, Qianlong Preview Treasure, Ancient Emperor, Tai Shang Huang, Five Blessingg Wuyin Changtang Ancient Emperor Treasure and Imperial Study Treasure. After the volume of "Han Xizai's Night Banquet", there was a postscript written by Emperor Qianlong: It was a book biography after the volume, and Yun Xizai and Zhu Tong rose to the first place, too quiet to check their names. After another volume, Lu You wrote "Biography of Xi Zai", in which he said: Tang Tongguang was a scholar, and Yuan Zongchao talked about state affairs without hiding anything. He also said that the party, government and army in Qiu Qi would be a disaster. When you are in a week, you will know Zhao's inspection and great concern. The two volumes contain different origins and different tastes, so the records can't be completely believed. As for the history of Ouyang Five Dynasties, Yunxizhai is honest and outspoken.
There is a cloud, and there will be dozens of prostitutes and concubines in the future. Seeing that what he said through Guli's wine was very weighty, but Zhou Shi's war of crossing the Huai River was of no help, his people could not help talking big and seeking truth from facts. It is also contained in the postscript, that the first master treats his family banquet, and the painter who hits the year goes first. Uncle Ji's monarch and minister specialize in Spring Festival travel rush, isn't it a joke for later generations? However, this scroll painting by Hong is very beautiful, so it is collected in Cheat Book A as a warning. Ganlong empire knowledge
The postscript of this volume also writes: At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Li Yu invited Gu, Zhou Wenju and others to peek at a family dinner in Han Xizai and drew a picture for him. Didn't the last dying monarch and minister just play a joke on future generations? However, Gu's painting is particularly exquisite, so I classified it as a secret book for appreciation and imitation.
In the Qing Dynasty, the Picture of Han Xizai's Night Banquet recorded a volume of "Spectacular Life" written by Gu Fu during Guangxu period. There are many imperial seals on the scroll during Jiaqing and Xuantong years in Qing Dynasty, such as "Treasure of Jiaqing Imperial Travel", "Treasure of Xuan Tong Imperial Travel", "Appreciation of Xuan Tong" and "Fine Seal of Wuyi Zhai". Han Xizai entered the palace during the Qianlong period of the Banquet, and lived a "royal life" of 100 years after Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, Guangxu and Xuan Tong dynasties. Later, Han Xizai's Night Banquet was taken out of the palace by members of the royal family in the late Qing Dynasty. After several twists and turns, it was finally collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
From the inheritance of Han Xizai's banquet, we can see that either a generation of kings, a generation of powerful ministers or elegant celebrities left their marks and postscript on Han Xizai's banquet.
Some of them wrote inscriptions at the Han Xizai banquet, and some of them had seals. These calligraphy and seals not only have high artistic appreciation value, but more importantly, they truly record the inheritance of Han Xizai's evening banquet in the following 1000 years. In a sense, these inscriptions can be called national treasures, just like seals and paintings.