How did Gu Kaizhi portray people in The Admonitions of the Court Instructress?

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ceremonial hu — Chinese painting Drawing of ancestral offering scenes (ritual archery, sericulture, hunting, and warfare) cast on a ceremonial bronze *hu,* 6th–5th century bc, Zhou dynasty. In the Palace Museum, Peking.

In The Admonitions of the Court Instructress, Gu Kaizhi portrays figures that are slender and fairylike.1

The painting, which serves as a narrative illustration of a didactic Confucian poem, utilizes a fine, rhythmically flowing line to depict these subjects. This approach reflects the elegant southern style of the time, where the artist’s carefully controlled brushwork effectively captures the nature of the text while maintaining a sense of grace and movement.21