May you have good luck and your happiness show at the tip of your eyebrow
喜上眉梢
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Pun Design：
Magpie + Prunus + On Top
Punning Details：
– ‘xi 喜’ in ‘xi que 喜鹊’ magpie has another meaning in Chinese which is ‘happiness’.
– ‘mei 梅’ meaning ‘prunus’ is a pun in Chinese on ‘mei 眉’ for ‘eyebrows’, which means spreading one’s eyebrows and smiling.
Therefore, the scene of magpies on the twigs of prunus trees delivers a message of ‘May you have good luck and your happiness show at the tip of your eyebrow’.
画面要素: 喜鹊 + 梅花 + 枝头;
谐音详情: “喜鹊”的“喜”谐音“喜乐”或“喜事”中的“喜”, “梅花枝头”谐音“眉头”
Related Pun Pictures:
Fig 1: Xi Bao Sheng Sun Tu 喜报生孙图, colour and ink on silk kesi, Song dynasty (960–1279), courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Fig 2: porcelain moon flask with underglaze blue decoration, Yongzheng period (1723–35), Qing dynasty, courtesy of The Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Art, Geneva
Fig 3: porcelain teapot with overglaze enamelled decoration, Yongzheng period (1723–35), Qing dynasty, courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Fig 4-5: Meiping vase with underglaze blue and overglaze enamelled decoration, Qianlong mark and period (1736–95), Qing dynasty, courtesy of The Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Art, Geneva
Fig 6: porcelain vase with overglaze enamelled decoration, Qianlong period (1736–95), Qing dynasty, courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Fig 7: lidded porcelain cup with overglaze enamelled decoration, Tongzhi period (1862–74), Qing dynasty, courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art
Fig 8: porcelain dish with overglaze enamelled decoration, Tongzhi period (1862–74), Qing dynasty, courtesy of Princessehof Ceramics Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Fig 9: mirror case with silk embroidery, 19th century, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Fig 10: Xi Shang Mei Tou 喜上眉头图, hanging scroll, ink and colour on paper, Qi Baishi (齐白石, 1864–1957), 1947, courtesy of Shanghai Duo Yun Xuan