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相关资料 Widely acknowledged as one of the most popular love stories in Chinese literature, Romance of the Western Chamber first appeared in the Tang dynasty in a short story by Yuan Zhen ‘The Story of Yingying’. It continued to be retold and elaborated upon reaching a more definitive form in the 13th century in the version written by Wang Shifu. The play, set in the Tang dynasty, relates the travails of love that beset a young aristocratic beauty, Yingying, and an aspiring scholar, Zhang Sheng. Contemporary chronicles and imagery produced in different media attest the play’s enduring popularity. Romance of the Western Chamber was so famous that series of woodblock prints were created in the late Ming dynasty reproducing key dramatic moments from the play. These prints proved to be a very useful resource to the artisans at Jingdezhen providing a template that allowed them to more readily satisfy the demand for the subject matter whether destined for the imperial household or for mass consumption. The present bowl is among the best examples of a graphic style of storytelling, a technique which reached unprecedented heights in the Kangxi period. Finely painted in varying tones of underglaze cobalt blue, the bowl illustrates twelve identifiable episodes from the famous play. Among the scenes depicted are, ‘The Repudiation of the Billet-Doux’ in which the overly eager Zhang, summoned by Yingying, leaps over a wall into a garden only to be spurned for his inappropriate haste; ‘Hongniang in the Dock’ showing Yingying ‘s loyal maid kneeling apologetically before Yingying’ s furious mother who has learned about the affair between its ehrs daughter and Zhang; nullnullnullnullnullnull