Draft:The portrait of Tsai Fu-yi

The portrait of Tsai Fu-yi depicts a portrait of Tsai Fu-yi and was archived by the Tsai family of Tsaicuo in Kinmen. [1][2] The portrait was announced as a general antiquity in July 2018. It was later announced as an important antiquity of the Republic of China on July 15, 2020 [1][3] . Currently, this portrait is the only handed-down portrait that records the details of Tsai Fu-yi’s appearance. [3] The Tsai family would take out the portrait each year on the winter solstice and the death day of Tsai Fu-yi to worship his memory. It was not until the 1990s that they were worried about damage to the portrait and then replaced it with a photographic replica. [2]

The portrait is archived at the Kinmen History and Folklore Museum of the Kinmen County Cultural Park Administration Office.

Brief Introduction

The overall height of the portrait after mounting is 206 cm, and the width is 98 cm. The overall height of the portrait center is 132.5 cm, with a width of 82 cm. [1] This portrait was completed in the late Ming Tienchi period (AD 1625). It is the earliest surviving ancestor portrait from Tai-Peng-Kin-Ma.

In the portrait, Tsai Fu-yi is sitting frontally on a tiger-skin chair and wearing a black gauze hat of an official in the Ming Dynasty. [1] His face and facial features are clear. His left eye is fully opened, the lid of his right eye droops closed, and his upper lip and chin are covered with a beard. [1] He is wearing a crimson robe with a collar and lapel on the right side. His robe has wide sleeves, and a white cross-neck inner shirt is exposed at the neck. [1] A mandarin square of “color embroidered double crane cloud pattern” appears on the chest of the robe. [1]

History

The portrait was delivered to the Xuzhou Road warehouse of the National Taiwan Museum for storage on January 6, 2021. [3] In December, the Tsaicuo Tsai Clan Association collaborated with the Kinmen Museum of History and Folklore to implement the portrait preservation and exhibition project. On the 19th, the contract signing ceremony for the ten-year loan exhibition of the “Tsai Fu-yi Portrait” was held. [2]