百子欢歌图卷 传宋 苏汉臣绘 绢本设色

《百子欢歌图卷》旧传为宋代画家苏汉臣所作，属绢本设色长卷，主画尺寸达 30.5×230 厘米，现藏于台北故宫博物院（藏品号：故畫 001452）。卷首有明代文彭题写 “百子歡歌” 引首，卷上钤印累累，包括 “文徵明印”“項墨林鑑賞章”“天籟閣” 等历代藏家印记，见证其流传脉络。​
作为婴戏图的经典代表，画作以园林湖石、四季花木为背景，串联起百余名童子的嬉戏场景，虽题为 “百子”，实则以 “百” 泛指众多，寄托 “多子多福” 的吉祥寓意。画面中孩童活动丰富多元：荡秋千、骑竹马、弈棋垂钓、斗蟋蟀、灌佛戏兔，更有假山前童子表演 “肉傀儡” 的珍贵场景，旁配锣鼓伴奏，被学界视为 “无丝傀儡戏” 的早期图像佐证。背景依四时更替点缀桃、荷、菊、梅等花卉，与童戏相映，暗含 “长春永续” 的祝福主题。​
在艺术技法上，画作承袭苏汉臣典型风格：以 “高古游丝描” 细劲圆润地勾勒衣纹，再施石青、朱砂等色彩层层晕染，艳而不俗，尽显宋代院体画的工整法度。细节刻画尤为精妙：孩童的 “鹁角”“烙铁印儿” 等十余种发型毫厘毕现，短襦、肚兜、风帽等童装样式丰富，与《东京梦华录》等文献记载可相互印证，成为研究宋代民俗与儿童生活的珍贵图像资料。需说明的是，据当代研究推测，此卷更可能为明代仿苏汉臣风格的佳作，延续了宋代婴戏图的艺术精髓。​
Hundred Boys Celebrating with Songs Scroll, traditionally attributed to the Song Dynasty painter Su Hanchen, is a colored scroll painting on silk. The main painting measures 30.5 × 230 cm and is currently housed in the National Palace Museum, Taipei (accession number: Gu Hua 001452). The scroll features a preface inscribed "Bai Zi Huan Ge" (Hundred Boys Celebrating with Songs) by Wen Peng of the Ming Dynasty, and bears numerous seals of successive collectors, including "Seal of Wen Zhengming", "Xiang Molin's Appreciation Seal", and "Tianlai Pavilion Seal", documenting its transmission history.​
As a classic example of "baby play paintings" (Yingxi Tu), the work uses garden rocks and flowers of four seasons as backdrops to connect scenes of over a hundred children at play. Though titled "Hundred Boys", the character "hundred" is a general term meaning "many", embodying the auspicious wish of "abundant offspring and good fortune". The children engage in diverse activities: swinging, riding bamboo horses, playing chess, fishing, fighting crickets, pouring water on Buddha statues, and playing with rabbits. A notable scene shows children performing "meat puppetry" in front of a rockery, accompanied by gongs and drums—academically recognized as one of the earliest visual records of "stringless puppetry". Seasonal flowers (peach, lotus, chrysanthemum, plum blossom) interspersed in the background complement the children's games, implying the blessing of "perpetual spring".​
In terms of artistic technique, the painting inherits Su Hanchen's typical style: using "ancient floating silk lines" (Gaogu Yousi Miao) to outline clothing with smooth precision, then layering colors like lapis lazuli and cinnabar for a rich yet elegant effect, exemplifying the meticulous standards of Song court painting (Yuantihua). The details are exquisitely rendered: over ten styles of children's hairstyles (e.g., "sparrow-hawk horns", "branding-mark cut") are depicted with precision, and children's clothing (short jackets, belly bands, hoods) is diverse. These details correspond with historical records in texts like Dongjing Meng Hua Lu (Dreams of Splendor in the Eastern Capital), making the scroll invaluable visual material for studying Song Dynasty folk customs and children's lives. It should be noted that contemporary research suggests this scroll is more likely a Ming Dynasty work emulating Su Hanchen's style, continuing the artistic essence of Song Dynasty baby play paintings.