Category: Tigers & Dragons Paintings and Wall Scrolls
Two Dragons Pearl Fireball Revelry - Wall Scroll
126cm
49½"
26¼"
Approximate Measurements
Painting: 48.6cm x 68.3cm ≈ 19" x 26¾"
Silk Scroll: 57.7cm x 126cm ≈ 22¾" x 49½"
Width at Wooden Knobs: 66.7cm ≈ 26¼"
Information about caring for your new Wall ScrollThis artwork is discounted just because it's been sitting (sealed up) on the shelves for a couple years.
Two Dragons Pearl Fireball Revelry - Wall Scroll
The Chinese Title is "Er Long Xi Zhu".
Close up view of the dragon artwork mounted to this silk brocade wall scroll
To break down the artist's title:
Er = Two
Long = Dragons
Xi = Play with / Revel
Zhu = Pearl (of fire)
About the Artist:
This artist's name is Li Yu-Jun from near Jinan City in the Shandong Province of Northern China. She was born in 1963 and started painting at an early age. Taking inspiration from famous artists of China in the beginning, she honed her skills and developed her own style over the years.
While she has dabbled in many subjects, her specialties are dragons as well as birds & flowers.
It was only by chance that I found her. I was seeking some new styles of dragons finding out just how hard it is to find good dragon artists. I happened to mention my dragon art frustrations to the manager of the gallery in Jinan that handles Yin Yi-Qiu's artwork (my favorite tiger artist). She immediately knew the perfect artist for what I was seeking. We arranged all the details for what I was looking for, and a month later several wonderful paintings were ready for mounting.
About the artwork:
This dragon painting was done on high-quality xuan paper (often called rice paper). To get the deep and vibrant colors that you see, the artist had to paint in multiple layers (only the best xuan paper can be used for this technique - otherwise the colors would become muddy).
It takes a long time to complete one of these paintings with all of the painstaking detail.
When finished, and delivered to our studio in Beijing, it was mounted by hand to the silk scroll that you see above.
This item was listed or modified
Sep 21st, 2012
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Where's my soy sauce?
When you sit down to eat at a restaurant in China, you will almost never see a bottle of soy sauce on the table like you might at a Chinese restaurant in the USA or UK.
In Chinese cooking culture, soy sauce is a seasoning reserved for use in the kitchen.
The fact that soy sauce can be found at Chinese restaurants outside of China probably comes from the confusion between Japanese food and Chinese food.
The most popular Japanese food outside of Japan is sushi, which of course is always served with soy sauce and is the most likely cause of the confusion.
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