Dai Kui

'''Dai Kui''' ({{zh|c=戴逵}}) (ca. 331–396), courtesy name '''Andao''' ({{Zh|c=案道|labels=no}}) was a writer, painter, and sculptor who lived during the Eastern Jin dynasty in China.<ref name="蜂">{{cite book |author=蜂屋邦夫 |author-link=:ja:蜂屋邦夫 |others=欽偉剛譯|script-title=zh:《道家思想與佛教》|pages=211–303 |script-chapter=zh:〈戴逵的藝術．學問．信仰〉|publisher=遼寧教育出版社 |location=瀋陽 |year=2000 |isbn=7538258736 |language=zh-hans}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cbYhwKSqleQC |title=Murmured Conversations: A Treatise on Poetry and Buddhism by the Poet-Monk Shinkei |date=2008-04-16 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=978-0-8047-7939-5 |pages=245 |language=en}}</ref>

Dai Kui was born in Zhi, modern day Su county in Anhui province.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Knechtges |first1=David R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mED9Vx10WokC |title=Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol.I): A Reference Guide, Part One |last2=Chang |first2=Taiping |date=2010-09-10 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-19127-3 |pages=180 |language=en}}</ref> He and his son, Dai Yong, were extremely influential in reinterpreting Buddhist iconography through a Chinese artistic lens; however, none of their work survives due to the later years of persecution and suppression of Buddhism.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Howard |first1=Angela Falco |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PGuPsNCaJdwC |title=Chinese Sculpture |last2=Hung |first2=Wu |last3=Song |first3=Li |last4=Hong |first4=Yang |date=2006-01-01 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-10065-5 |pages=4 |language=en}}</ref> Dao Kui was the first to master the dry-lacquer technique.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pellizzi |first=Francesco |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q9LtySAJUMwC |title=Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 55/56: Absconding |date=2010-01-15 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-87365-854-6 |pages=53–56 |language=en}}</ref>

He was known as a poet, painter, and musician and was one of the first to establish the tradition of scientific amateur painting (wenrenhua). He was also the leading sculptor of his time. He created bronze, lacquer statues, and carved wooden sculptures.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Lee|first=Sherman E.|url=http://archive.org/details/china5000yearsin00lees|title=China, 5000 years: innovation and transformation in the arts|date=1998|publisher=New York : Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|others=Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|isbn=978-0-89207-202-6}}</ref> Dai Kui painted mostly Buddhist and Daoist themes.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chinese painting - Qin (221–206 bce) and Han (206 bce–220 ce) dynasties|url=https://www.britannica.com/art/Chinese-painting|access-date=2020-07-15|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref>

Dai Kui gained some notoriety after an incident where he refused to play the zither, which he was quite accomplished at, for a prince. Upon being summoned by the prince, he smashed the zither on the ground rather than perform as a court minstrel.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Zhitui |first=Yan |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501503191/html |title=Family Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui (531–590s) |date=2021-03-08 |publisher=De Gruyter |isbn=978-1-5015-0319-1 |editor-last=Kroll |editor-first=Paul |pages=433 |doi=10.1515/9781501503191}}</ref>

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Category:Jin dynasty (266–420) musicians Category:4th-century Chinese writers Category:4th-century Chinese artists Category:4th-century Chinese painters Category:4th-century musicians