Hanging scroll

Hanging scroll
Hanging scroll
	Chinese hanging scrolls on display
Chinese name
Chinese	立軸 ; 掛軸 ; 軸
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	lìzhóu ; guàzhóu ; zhóu
Bopomofo	ㄌㄧˋㄓㄡˊ; ㄍㄨㄚˋㄓㄡˊ; ㄓㄡˊ
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	lahpjuhk ; gwajuhk ; juhk
Jyutping	lap6zuk6 ; gwaa3zuk6 ; zuk6
Canton Romanization	leb6zug6; gua3zug6; zug6
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	li̍p-te̍k; kòa-te̍k; te̍k
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet	tranh cuộn
Chữ Nôm	𢂰𦄣
Korean name
Hangul	족자
Revised Romanization
Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	jogja
Japanese name
Kanji	掛軸
Hiragana	かけじく
Katakana	カケジク
Romanization
Transcriptions
Romanization	kakejiku

A hanging scroll is one of the many traditional ways to display and exhibit East Asian painting and calligraphy. The hanging scroll was displayed in a room for appreciation; it is to be distinguished from the handscroll, which was narrower and designed to be viewed flat on a table in sections and then stored away again.

Hanging scrolls are generally intended to be displayed for short periods of time and are then rolled up to be tied and secured for storage.^[2]^[3] The hanging scrolls are rotated according to season or occasion, and such works are never intended to be on permanent display.^[4] The painting surface of the paper or silk can be mounted with decorative brocade silk borders.^[3] In the composition of a hanging scroll, the foreground is usually at the bottom of the scroll while the middle and far distances are at the middle and top respectively.^[3]

The traditional craft involved in creating a hanging scroll is considered an art in itself.^[5] Mountings for Chinese paintings can be divided into a few types, such as handscrolls, hanging scrolls, album leaves, and screens amongst others.^[6] In the hanging scroll the actual painting is mounted on paper, and provided at the top with a stave, to which is attached a hanging cord, and at the bottom with a roller.

^ ^a ^b ^c "立軸". National Palace Museum. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
^ Cite error: The named reference lee was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b ^c "A Look at Chinese Painting". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
^ Andrews, Julia F. (1994). Painters and politics in the People's Republic of China: 1949 – 1979. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-520-07981-6.
^ Cite error: The named reference sze was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Norwich, John Julius (1993). The arts (updated impression ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-19-869137-2.

[npm-1] "立軸". National Palace Museum. Retrieved 16 August 2011.

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[met-3] "A Look at Chinese Painting". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 14 August 2011.

[andrews-4] Andrews, Julia F. (1994). Painters and politics in the People's Republic of China: 1949 – 1979. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-520-07981-6.

[sze-5] Cite error: The named reference sze was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[6] Norwich, John Julius (1993). The arts (updated impression ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-19-869137-2.

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