Artist: Zhao Puchu

Date: Modern

Dimensions: Height 80.0 cm, Width 25.0 cm

Material: Ink on paper

• Object Type：
  • CALLIGRAPHY
• Location：
  • Zhao Puchu Gallery
• Tag：
  • poem mao zedong running script hanging scroll zhao puchu modern ink paper

Zhao Puchu gained recognition from Chairman Mao Zedong by his hard work and poetry accomplishment. He wrote a large number of poems throughout this life to show respect for Chairman Mao, including odes to the Chairman and poetry in reply to his poems, which were later compiled and published. This text, titled Changsha, is a popular ci poem (Tune: Spring in a Pleasure Garden) composed by Mao. Although it is an unsigned work written seemingly for practice, the work was highly prized for good arrangements of space between characters and vertical columns, and varying brushstrokes as well.