Category: South Chinese Folk Art Paintings & Batiks

Song for the Herd

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Approximate Measurements:
21¼" x 15¼"   (54cm x 39cm)


Song for the Herd

The Chinese title of this painting is "Mu Ge".

To break it down:

Mu = Herd (sometimes the act of herding and tending)
Ge = Songs / Music

Surely this young boy that is tending to his animals is playing a traditional song for them. He is holding and blowing a little reed instrument that is made from a gourd and some bamboo.

This painting is by Zhang Qing-Yi from a small town called Qindu in Huxian County in the Shaanxi Province of China.

These folk art paintings show scenes that are typical of village life in the middle of China.

Materials used in this work are "shui fen" (paint powder and water - similar to gouache), on thick paper


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Typical Gallery Price: $50.00

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US$24.95U.S. Dollars

GBP £15.14British Pounds
Euro €16.84Euro
Canadian $26.74Canadian Dollars
Australian $27.45Australian Dollars

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Item Location: USA
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Where's my fortune cookie?
So after traveling to China, you have just finished your first meal in a real Chinese restaurant.
But the bill comes, and the waiter forgot to bring everyone their fortune cookies!
Well, actually not...
You see, fortune cookies did not come from China (at least not directly).
One legend has it in the late 1800s or early 1900s, a Chinese man running a noodle making shop in San Francisco accidentally mixed a bunch of sugar in his dough, and didn't want to waste it. So he made cookies and stuck papers with people's fortunes on them as a novelty.
In the end, it's really the Chinese visitors to America that are confused when the waiter brings them a blob of sugary noodle dough with a piece of paper stuck in it.

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