Artist: Zhao Puchu

Date: Modern, dated 1997

Dimensions: Height 84.0 cm, Width 46.0 cm

Material: Ink on paper

• Object Type：
  • CALLIGRAPHY
• Location：
  • Zhao Puchu Gallery
• Tag：
  • farewell huangpu river running script hanging scroll zhao puchu 1997 ink paper

In 1938, Zhao Puchu saw off by the Huangpu River the best of refugees and the core members running the house of refugees on behalf of Cillian Hui (aka. Charity Union); those people would leave for the south of Anhui province via Wenzhou to join the New Fourth Army. Zhao composed this wuyan poem (a poem with five characters to a line) to commemorate the farewell, and rewrote it in 1997 at the age of ninety-one in remembrance of this event, with a steady, well-balanced brushwork conveying both dynamic strength and soft grace.