Zhong Kui is wearing a red robe, holding onto his sleeves while standing, turning his body sideways and gazing at a red bat fly towards him. This is an auspicious connotation of attracting fortune into the room. In terms of character construction, cinnabar was used to outline Zhong Kui’s clothing which is then painted with crimson red. The delicate control of the ink’s moisture and the illustration of the face using medium and faint ink is detailed and lively.
简中｜引福入室
Paintings
Xia Jing Shan
colour on paper
138X73
2011
題跋：德高心正光明正大自然坦蕩蕩邪魔怎敢侵雄才浩氣耀天庭凜烈威風護眾生子孫萬代享太平
辛卯冬至於北京時年八十七山東夏荊山作
印記：佛光普照、夏氏荊山、楠竹居士、萬法心生、南無阿彌陀佛、夏荊山書畫印、聖像妙法廣結善緣、夏荊山佛學典藏之寶、南無阿彌陀佛
CH-00483
