Dongfang Shou as a Youth
Shao Shaoyi Chinese
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Shao Shaoyi was a student and friend of Qi Baishi. In the thirties and forties while working in Peking as a newspaper journalist, he was inspired by Qi's experiments using large brushes. Shao Shaoyi's painting of the official Dongfang Manqian who served the Han Emperor Wu Di and later assumed the rank of an Immortal, is a close copy of Qi's painting of the same subject. Shao, following Qi's lead, depicts the Immortal as a cherubic lad, still coiffed as a child, holding the colorful peach that is the emblem of this immortality like a favorite plaything. Qi in his inscription to Shao's painting gives himself credit for his novel decision to depict the Immortal as a youth.
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