宋人《盥手观花图》研究

A Study on the Washing Hands and Viewing Flowers(Yushou Guanhua tu) Created in the Song Dynasty

《盥手观花图》是现存为数不多的早期仕女画之一,通过与现存唐宋图像资料的对比,可知其绘制或临摹的时间应该不会早于南宋。此画所表现的时间空关系及图像意涵也并非如祝暄惠所言,是女子夜间赏花之事。而应该是在三月暮春之晨晓,宫廷女子在庭院用"青丝步障"隔出一片闺闱之地,焚香料,浴牡丹,行宋人插花之雅事。

The Painting of Washing Hands and Viewing Flowers(Yushou Guanhua tu)is one of the few early paintings of ladies in existence.By comparing with the existing images of Tang and Song Dynasties,we can see that the time of its drawing or copying should not be earlier than that of Southern Song Dynasty.The relationship between time and space and the meaning of the images in this painting are not about women watching flowers at night,as what Zhu Xuanhui said,but should be that in the morning in late spring of March,the court women doing refined activities by separating a piece of land for ladies in the courtyard with"green silk",and burning spices,watering peonies,and arranging flowers.