今年是鸡年,国内许多博物馆、美术馆都在搞一些有关鸡的文物与美术作品展,笔者每每去这些展馆都十分留意是否有鸡的专题,以便一睹为快。今年六月,笔者有机会去内蒙古鄂尔多斯博物馆,正巧赶上这里也有一个有关鸡年的文物与美术展览,从新石器早期赵宝沟的鸡型陶器,一直看到现代的绘画作品,时光在展览中穿越了七千多年,在这些展品中,笔者发现了一幅《梅花雌鸡图》的照片,图中落款为周铁衡。此图梅花以纯墨勾写, This year is the Year of the Rooster. Many museums and art galleries in China are engaged in exhibitions of artefacts and art works related to chickens. The author often pays special attention to whether there are chickens or not in these pavilions for a quick look. In June of this year, I had the opportunity to go to Erdos Museum in Inner Mongolia. Just happened to catch up here. There is also a cultural relic and art exhibition about the Year of the Rooster. From the chicken-shaped pottery in the early Neolithic Zhao Baogou, I have been able to see the modern paintings, Through more than seven thousand years, in these exhibits, I found a picture of “plum hen map”, the picture of the inscription for Zhou Tieheng. This figure plum ink to write,