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The Ming Dynasty painters we bring todayShen Zhou"Chickens", one of the albums of "Woyoutu", is currently collected in the Palace Museum.

Paper, ink, 28.1 cm in height, 37.6 cm in width

This painting has a simple composition, showing a chick in freehand ink. Although the subject matter is simple, the brushwork is restrained and vivid, and the tender body of the chick is fully revealed through the ink.

This work is a representative work of Shen Zhou's paintings on chickens. The chicks are drawn with light ink and fine brushstrokes, the feathers on the back are rendered with wet ink, and the body contours are outlined with simple ink lines. Although it is freehand, it still takes into account the three-dimensional sense of the object.

This painting is inscribed with a seven-character poem: "The fur is half yellow, why is it chirping away from its mother? Days last for thousands of years, but when it urges the dawn, the day should be longer."

From the poem he wrote, the artist expressed his concern for this half-grown chick, which is always chirping for its mother. How will it take on the responsibility of urging the crowing of the morning when it grows up? It is not difficult to see that the artist expressed his hope that his offspring would soon become successful through the chick painting.