Artist: Zhao Puchu

Date: Modern

Material: Ink on paper

• Object Type：
  • CALLIGRAPHY
• Location：
  • Zhao Puchu Gallery
• Tag：
  • ode running script mounted sheet zhao puchu modern ink paper

At the request of his friend, Song Zhiguang, Zhao Puchu composed this inscription for the painting Mi Fu Bowing to a Rock. It contains allusions and quotations from Chinese classics and a tale. In it, he extols the hardness and solidity of rocks, regarding them as 'friends and teachers that deserve bowing to'. Zhao Puchu's mother, Chen Zhongxuan, had the designated name 'Baishi', which literally means 'bowing to a rock'. In 1990, Zhao Puchu established an award in honour of his mother: the 'Baishi Scholarship', which is presented in his hometown Taihu to teachers and students who embody the qualities of rocks: indestructibility and unyieldingness. Zhao Puchu created this work at the age of eighty-four.