Artist: Zhao Puchu

Date: Modern, dated 1997

Dimensions: Height 70.0 cm, Width 35.0 cm

Material: Ink on paper

• Object Type：
  • CALLIGRAPHY
• Location：
  • Zhao Puchu Gallery
• Tag：
  • poem on the return of hong kong destruction of opium runnings script hanging scroll zhao puchu 1997 ink paper

Since late May of 1997, Zhao Puchu had been writing Lin Zexu's ci poem Destruction of Opium every day along with a qu poem of his own, to welcome the forthcoming return of Hong Kong and to support the constitutional principle 'one country, two systems'. This work was created by the 91-year-old gentleman on the day of the return, manifesting good brushwork strength in well-balanced structure of characters.