Ancient China's Genre Painting Featuring Children

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Child imagery has played an important role in China's traditional art of painting. A significant number of children's portraits had been created in history. Overall, child subjects fall into three playing children, shepherd boys, and peddlers. Painters in Tang Dynasty are good at depicting children at play. Popular children's games in ancient times include playing house, fighting on "horseback", cricket-fighting, and so on. The famous painter Su Hanchen of the Song Dynasty began to establish romantic associations linking childhood with naivety in his artworks, which were drawn with meticulous observations.Genre paintings featuring a peddler and the children were very popular during the Song and Yuan dynasties, during Ming and Qing dynasties, "baby imagery" derived from Spring Festival woodcuts became a great favorite of ordinary people, as it usually contains the auspicious implication of "many sons, many blessings." This book introduces representative works by the famous painters back from Warring Period to Qing Dynasty.