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Dish with Chinese farmers engaged in rice cultivation
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About this work
The book Gengzhitu (Illustrations of Rice and Silk Culture) was written by the scholar Lou Shou (1090-1162) in the period of the Song dynasty (960-1279). Emperor Kangxi (r. 1661-1722) of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) used an adapted form of the book as political propaganda, with himself as the model ruler of the country. This illustration is from a deluxe edition that he had made. The man carrying a basket refers to the emperor.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineDish with Chinese farmers engaged in rice cultivation. c. 1875 - c. 1899. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
