Zhu Gui (printmaker)
Zhu Gui (朱圭, 1644–1717) was a wood carver from Qing Dynasty, born in Suzhou, Jiangsu. Zhu is famous for some important works; for example: the Wu Shuang Pu (1694), is a book with pictures of forty heroes, he also made the 46 paintings of "Tilling and Weaving" (1696), by order of Emperor Kangxi. And furthermore he made the 146 pictures in the "Book of the ceremony of longevity" (1717), this original 1717 version of the longevity ceremony is stored in the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City in Beijing in China.