{"product_id":"zk-tczk4523","title":"Zhong Kui | Peace Under Heaven | Traditional Hand-Painted Chinese Ink Figure Painting | 101x50cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZhong Kui | Peace Under Heaven | Traditional Hand-Painted Chinese Ink Figure Painting | 101x50cm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn cinnabar, Zhong Kui stands with hands behind his back, grave and majestic; at the lower left a subdued spirit huddles in a heap, daring not to move. The great deity stands straight as a pine, gazing down, the red lines upright and steady—between motion and stillness, the subduer and subdued, comes the reassuring sense of evil-mist swept clean and the four seas at peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Peace Under Heaven\" is the simplest ultimate wish of Zhong Kui belief: demons are quelled never to show off prowess, but to win a world where all may dwell at ease and the years are good. What lies underfoot is disorder; what stands tall is order and calm. The artist here places a love of home and nation: may uprightness endure and evil never overcome right, and above all may ordinary people live secure in years of peace—that is the final meaning of all guardianship. Painted in the spare freehand (xieyi) manner, the work uses bold, economical strokes in which ink and cinnabar range from dense to pale, bringing Zhong Kui to life in just a few assured marks. The figure is delightfully exaggerated yet disciplined, weaving a contemporary, good-humored spirit into the folk tradition of the demon-quelling, blessing-bringing deity—at once solemn and playful. In Chinese folklore the cinnabar-red Zhong Kui guards the home and wards off evil; the artist revitalizes this age-old theme in freehand spirit. Each piece is an original, non-reproducible hand-painted work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSize: approx. 101×50cm (4.5 square chi) | Traditional hand-painted Chinese ink figure painting | On paper\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Treascol Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47472704749756,"sku":"TCzk4523","price":6900.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/6291\/0652\/files\/9e03f43b82c945a3c167b1de552627bc.jpg?v=1789294626","url":"https:\/\/treascol.com\/en\/products\/zk-tczk4523","provider":"Treasure Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}