Big Gourds and Little Birds

The title is 子孫萬代 (Zǐ sūn wàn dài) which is a wish that your descendants continue to flourish for 10,000 generations. The gourd represents good luck and prosperity in Chinese culture. The fact that the gourd vine never stops growing and creates multitudes of seeds means it also represents fortitude and fertility (having many offspring).

The inscription indicates that this artwork was painted in 2010 by Jian-Qiu at the Qing-Feng studio.

This artwork is completely hand-painted and is mounted to a handmade silk wall scroll in my Beijing workshop.

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About the Artist:

The artist's name is (Wang Jian-Qiu). He lives in Jinan, the capital city of Shandong Province in Northern China (about 5 hours south of Beijing). I was introduced to this artist's work at Qin Xia's studio in Jinan. This artist has been a long time friend of Qin Xia (You may recognize Qin Xia's name from artwork in our flowers and birds category). Wang Jian-Qiu also does some great detailed beautiful woman paintings, and occasionally does some landscapes for us as well.