Word: yongzheng
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...show until mid-April: artifacts from ancient dynasties, flowing calligraphy, elaborate scrolls, magnificent dragon-decorated robes, priceless jades and ancestor paintings that represent the most important Confucian value, filial piety. In fact, the subjects of this exhibition are a father, his son and grandson - the Qing Emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong - who ruled the Middle Kingdom for 133 consecutive years and expanded China even beyond its present-day borders. And the trio weren't even Chinese. They were Manchus, hunters and fishers from north of the Great Wall who successfully vanquished the crumbling Ming Dynasty in 1644 and were greeted...
...instance, several seals and a colophon mark Spring's Peaceful Message, a charming double portrait, painted by Castiglione around 1736, of Qianlong and his father. The older man is handing his son a sprig of flowering apricot, symbolizing a peaceful transition of power and wishes for a fruitful reign. Yongzheng did not want his chosen heir to suffer the questions of legitimacy that he did. The Royal Academy exhibition is much more than Qing propaganda, exquisite as it is. There is a large room devoted to literati paintings, some produced by Ming loyalists protesting foreign rule in subtle works that...
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