Artist: Zhao Puchu

Date: Modern, dated 1997

Dimensions: Height 84.0 cm, Width 47.0 cm

Material: Ink on paper

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

Zhao Puchu visited Mount Tiantai during his inspection of the flood-stricken areas in eastern Zhejiang province in 1952. After the inspection, he returned to Beijing via Mount Yandang, the Lingyan Resort, the Ou River, and Shaoxing city. This qijue poem (a four-line poem with seven characters to a line) was one of the five poems Zhao composed as a travel log to this eastern Zhejiang trip. In 1997, more than over forty years later, the 91-year-old gentleman rewrote the poems. Conveying a lively ease in style, this scroll is well-balanced in arrangements of space between characters and vertical columns, and considered a work of maturity in his later years.