Hanging scroll by Shen Zhou 沈周 (1427-1509)
Image credit: The National Palace Museum, Taipei (https://digitalarchive.npm.gov.tw/Painting/Content?pid=3249&Dept=P)
南國昨夜雨， The rain on [this] southern land last night
肥勝大官羊。 [Made it] fatter than the Court Provisioner’s lamb.
党氏銷金帳， Did Dang under his golden-threaded baldachin
何曾得一嚐？[1] Ever taste this delight? [2]
沈周 Shen Zhou
[1] Red characters rhyme.
[2] The last two lines allude to the following anecdote about Dang Jin 党進 (927-977), a general at the beginning of the Northern Song (960-1127); recorded in Li Zongkong’s 李宗孔 (1620-1689) Songbai leichao 宋稗類鈔: https://ctext.org/library.pl?if=gb&file=50859&page=8.
陶學士穀買得党太尉故妓。取雪水烹團茶，謂妓曰：“党家應不識此。”妓曰：“彼麄人，安得有此。但能銷金帳下，淺酌低唱，飲羊羔美酒耳。”陶愧其言。
Academician Tao Gu (903-970) bought a courtesan who had formerly served Defender-in-Chief Dang [Jin]. Brewing a tea brick with melted snow, [Tao Gu] said to the courtesan, “Dang’s house probably knows nothing about this.” She replied, “He is a rustic. How would [he] know about such things? [He] simply has lamb with fine wine under the golden-threaded baldachin, pouring slowly, singing gently.” Tao was embarrassed by her words.
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