Home / Chinese Painting & Comprehensive Art Gallery / Shirley's Art 804-A168- Stories Behind My Paintings-老莱子戏彩娱亲： Lao Laizi Wore Colored Clothes to Please His Parents-Shirley's 199th Assignment at Chinese National Academy of Arts -March 14, 2013
Shirley's Art 804-A168- Stories Behind My Paintings-老莱子戏彩娱亲： Lao Laizi Wore Colored Clothes to Please His Parents-Shirley's 199th Assignment at Chinese National Academy of Arts -March 14, 2013
This story names 老莱子戏彩娱亲： Lao Laizi Wore Colored Clothes to Please His Parents.
Lao Laizi was a hermit in Chu State (in today’s Hubei Province and the North part of Hunan Province in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 B.C.).
For avoiding the time of misfortune, he worked as a farmer to raise himself at the southern foot of the Meng Mountains( it was the ancient name of the Xiang Mountains in Jing Men, Hubei Province before the South Song Dynasty (1127-1279).
Lao Laizi respected his parents very much and always he picked up the good food for them. When he was 70 years old, instead of saying old, he was often in the colored clothes and played a little rattle as a little child, to please his parents.
Once, he carried water for his parents, he fell down on the floor at the moment to enter in their room, for being afraid of his parents in the sadness, simply, he laid on the floor to learn a child crying, so that his parents could not help laughing. :- )
With a moved heart, I painted this painting and hope to help you to under the story.
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