Abstract:

 Both Xia Gui (Yu Yu) in the Southern Song Dynasty and Li Gonglin in the Northern Song Dynasty are important representatives of painting whose works give an influence on China' s history of painting. But, for a long period of time, most of their picturescrolls have lost. Although, later, many picturescrolls, according to their prefaces or inscriptions, were considered to be the works of Xie or Li, there are still controversies over such substantive issues as authentic, counterfeit, copy and imitation. Most of handingdown descriptions are ambiguous. As for the description that indicates clearly authentic works or highlevel copies, it is rare. In view of all these, this essay, based on large number of documents and fieldsurvey data, and by using the research methods of finearts, artmarketing, art archaeology, statistics, sociology, philology and so on, has a systematic, meticulous discussion of the handingdown of the socalled authentic picturescrolls by Xia Gui and Li Gonglin that are stored in the Taipei Museum of History, thus outlining basically a general handingdown history of more than 700 years from the Song Dynasty to modern time.

                                                      

Key words: handing down of picture scroll, textual research and comment, Xia Gui, Li Gonglin