"Han Palace Spring Dawn" is a heavy colored silk painting of a beautiful woman created by Ming Dynasty painter Qiu Ying. It is now collected in the National Palace Museum in Taipei。

The "Han Palace Spring Dawn Picture" vividly reproduces the life scene of the palace women in the Han Dynasty with long scroll paintings。Its brush is clear and beautiful, trees, stones and gorgeous palace interspersed and shaded, spread out a magnificent scene like a fairyland, extremely painted with the ability to apply, reflecting the author's positive, love life of humanity, but also expressed his praise for the court's flashy and beautiful life。

"Spring Dawn of the Han Dynasty" is Qiu Ying's proud work, one of the top ten Chinese famous paintings, and also known as "the first long volume of beautiful ladies in China".。

Qiu Ying (c. 1497-1552) was born in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, and later moved to Suzhou。 Chinese painting master of Ming Dynasty, one of the four Ming schools。

Qiu Ying is especially good at painting people, especially long ladies, both work color, but also good ink, white painting, can use a variety of strokes to express different objects, or round flow beauty, or vigorous beauty。Occasionally as flowers and birds, also bright and beautiful。

Qiu Ying is one of the most representative painters in the Ming Dynasty, and together with Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming and Tang Yin, he is known as the "four Ming families" and "Four Wumen families", also known as the "Four Heavenly Men".。In his paintings, Qiu Ying generally only inscribed titles and wrote as few words as possible, in order not to destroy the beauty of the picture, so the painting history appraise him as an immortal who pursued the realm of art。

In the picture, many women dress up, water, break branches, arrange flowers, raise animals, sing and dance, play music, surround the stove, play chess, read books, fight grass, look at the mirror, view pictures, play babies, deliver food, and wave fans。The whole painting scene is not sad and sad, everywhere is a relaxed and lively cheerful atmosphere, the female figures pose calmly, happy sound。

In terms of composition, the layout of "Han Palace Spring Dawn" is very spatial, and the biggest feature of the painting is that the house and the yard divide the picture into two parts。Rows of palace houses run through the picture from right to left, but only half of the house is exposed to the picture, without drawing the roof, and the courtyard and house occupy half of the area, which makes the horizontal space of the picture increase。Some ladies lie in the house reading, playing the piano，Some are enjoying the scenery and chatting outside the courtyard，They walked from the house to the house，Walk from house to house，Moving from one yard to another，From outside the palace to inside the palace，The vertical space of the whole picture also opens up with the movement of the characters，At the same time, the painter also makes the picture fluctuating through the description of some details of the life activities of the characters，Caused the audience to linger，resonate。The painter does not forget to enrich the picture while pulling the vertical and horizontal space of the picture, the picture layout is clever, the characters sit or stand, scattered, and each group of characters echo each other, so that the picture is relaxed and rich in rhythm。In short, the painter's composition layout on a long volume of 5 meters 7 stretches freely, and the characters are arranged just right, simple and proper。

In the color, "Han Palace Spring Xiao Map" with meticulous brushwork and heavy colors, elegant and beautiful, giving people a vibrant atmosphere。In the picture, the painter skillfully uses red collocation, almost every lady's skirt, headdress, blouse, belt or clothing edge and some living utensils such as cutting board, chair, railing, are also equipped with bright red to varying degrees, and red is scattered on the picture, making the picture festive and bright。At the same time, behind the background is also equipped with Qiu Ying's unique green landscape painting method, which Outlines the green landscape neatly and fine, melting and rendering in the color, and Cun, revealing the elegant and fresh charm。The combination of red and green, and the palace with the warm color of vermilion as a backdrop, makes the picture vigorous and happy。