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Synopsis
This video illustrates a painting about the poet, Li Bai and his cousins in the Tang Dynasty where they feasted under the peach and plum trees in spring. This was painted by a famous Ming painter who had his inspirations from a poem by Li Bai, whose writings were in fact inspired by Tao Yuanming’s poem, ‘Peach Blossom Spring’. In this video, you would find out that the gathering that they had was not just merely for a feast but rather, for something more.
Bibliography
Kwong, Charles “Making Poetry with Alcohol: Wine Consumption in Tao Qian, Li Bai and Su Shi.” In Scribes of Gastronomy: Representations of Food and Drink in Imperial Chinese Literature. Edited by Isaac Yue and Siufu Tang, 45-67. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013.
Waley-Cohen, Joanna. “The Quest for Perfect Balance: Taste and Gastronomy in Imperial China.” In Food: The History of Taste, edited by Paul Freedman, 99-133. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007.
Images derived from
Wen Zheng 文正. “Mingdai huihua “wenwen erya de wupai” zhi ‘qiu ying’ 明代绘画 “温文尔雅的吴派” 之 ‘仇英’” (Ming Dynasty “The Elegant Wu Faction’s” ‘Qiu Ying’). Last modified 29 July 2016. http://wenzhengwenhua.com/article-3217-1.html (accessed 3 October, 2019).