Intertextuality and Shielding of Poetic painting: A Case Study of Qiao Zhongchang’s “The Sequel to the Ode to the Red Cliff Scroll”

Abstract

As an art form combining poetry and painting, poetic painting usually presents the emotion and mood of the source poem in a positive and favorable way. However, due to the limitations of painting’s ideograms, poetic painting has limitations in presenting the connotations and extensions of poetry. Qiao Zhongchang’s The Sequel to the Ode to the Red Cliff Scroll of the Northern Song Dynasty is one of the typical models of ancient poetic paintings. From the perspective of the relationship between poetry and painting, the writer analyze the intertextual and shielding phenomena therein, with a view to better understanding the constituent elements of the poetic paintings of the ancient literati and the role they played in the interpenetration of literature and art.