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Tung Kao, whose style name was His-chin and sobriquet Che-lin, was a native of Fu-yang in Chekiang. His father was Tung Pang-ta. He passed the chin-shih examination in 1763, rising to be a National Scholar and member of the Imperial Library. His posthumous title was Wen-kung. He was a poet, prose writer, painter, and calligrapher. He continued his father’s style in painting.
In these a bustling crowd bids farewell to the old year and welcomes the new. In the first the urgent drums hasten on the New Year; in the second guests are sought to be banquetted at the New Year; the third leaf shows a magpie singing to the Spring; the fourth takes as its theme ‘Seeing off the Kitchen God’; the fifth ‘A Group Drinking Life-Prolonging Wine’; the sixth ‘Snow Augars a Prosperous Year’; the seventh is ‘Seeing the Old Year Out’; and the eight ‘Welcoming Good Fortune with Firecrackers.’
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