May Your Age Be as Mountain Tai and Your Happiness as the Eastern Sea

作品賞析

HONG Tzu-Wei's work, May your age be as Mountai Tai and your happiness as the Eastern Sea, tries to reflect on the value of the family. She combines the auspicious images often seen in Taiwanese folklife, and at the same time, gathers and juxtaposes them to form a new auspicious picture. In the picture, there are many symbolic signs. The cranes and pine trees symbolize longevity, the bamboo symbolizes prosperity, and the sailboat means blessings for safe travels, which are all long-cherished expectations from the Eastern culture. For HONG Tzu-Wei, under the reality of the circulation of birth, age, sickness, and death, these beautiful images are like wrapping paper, which can only temporarily cover up the uneasiness on the surface.