Artist: Zhao Puchu

Date: Modern, dated 1994

Dimensions: Height 136.0 cm, Width 71.0 cm

Material: Ink on paper

• Object Type：
  • CALLIGRAPHY
• Location：
  • Zhao Puchu Gallery
• Tag：
  • reconstruction chenxiang pavilion regular script hanging scroll zhao puchu 1994 ink paper

The Chenxiang (lit. Agarwood) Pavilion was originally a nunnery. It was so named because the enshrined agarwood Avalokiteśvara statue had been salvaged from the Huai River by Mr. Pan Yunduan, the then Director-General of Grain Transport of the Ming dynasty. Due to the destruction of the agarwood statue and the building on the site, the nunnery went under reconstruction from 1990 onward. It took more than three years to complete the project, for which Zhao Puchu wrote this text that was inscribed into a stone tablet. In this calligraphic work, however, Zhao miswrote the starting month of reconstruction for July, 1980. The whole work features well-constructed characters in moist, fleshy brushwork. Zhao created the work in 1994 at the age of eighty-eight.