The new year's elegant offering painting(suizhao qinggong tu),which depicts arrangements of elegant items in festive settings,reached its zenith during the late Ming to early Qing period in the Jiangnan region and was introduced to the Qing imperial palace by influential literati officials and court painters native to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.Counterfeit paintings,notably of Dong Xiang's works,that infused the new year's elegant offering painting with a sense of archaism directly contributed to the Qianlong Emperor's appreciation of the genre.Motivated by a desire to revive the Song dynasty tradition of palace celebrations,the Qianlong Emperor creatively combined the painting with"spring couplets",thus starting a new fashion.These factors as well as the participation of emperors,talented royal offspring,literati officials,and court painters in producing the artworks led to the popularity of new year's elegant offering painting in the imperial palace.
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