Yan Bolong

• Yan Bolong, a Manchu from the Plain Yellow Banner, was a native of Beijing. His given name was Yunlin, his courtesy name was Bolong (used as his common name), and his pseudonym was Changbai Buyi (Long White Cloth Scholar). He resided in a place called Chuncao Tang (Spring Grass Hall). During the Republic of China period, Yan was a prominent figure in the Beijing-Tianjin painting school, renowned for his bird-and-flower paintings. He was also skilled in landscapes, figures, feathers, and animals. Yan disliked officialdom and preferred to live as an ordinary scholar, devoting himself to painting. Due to his ancestral roots in Changbai, he became known as Changbai Buyi (Long White Cloth Scholar).

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