Silk Painting(Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum)

"Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum" was the masterpiece of Chinese paintings, most famous artist had ever painted "Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemu". Chinese painting just was the general name for the paintings with the theme- Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum. Wensli silk four screens of "Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum" recorded the noble story of the "three friends" changed to "four friends" in Song and Yuan dynasties.

Many painters liked painting Bamboo, Plum plus pine and called them "pine, bamboo and plum", which known as the "three friends in winter". Wu Zhen in Yuan Dynasty plus the orchid to the "three friends", and called them "four friends" which refered to four gentlemen. In the Wanli era of the Ming Dynasty, they used "four friends" as the ideal personality sustenance, then to remind people of the integrity, perseverance, optimism and courage! Then "Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum" had well known both in China and abroad.

[Plum] Several plums opened alone with the fragrance sprang in the cold and rain.

[Orchid]Orchids grew in the ravine, the people attracted by the fragrance spreaded all over the mountains.

[Bamboo]Bamboo had the knots before came up out of land, when they grew tall they still open-minded.

[Chrysanthemum] Autumn Chrysanthemum could withstand the severe cold, no other things could make it yield.

Wensli silk edition of "Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum" was a set of four paintings in one package, which focus on fortitudinous characteristics of Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum. It had a great implication along with the highly collectible value.