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seventeenth centuryseventeenth centuryBy Anne Burkus Chass

Presentation by Carrie Adams, Kory Wyckoff and Kate Durland

Shitao. Waterfall on Mount Lu. Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk.

Mount Lu or Lushan Located in the Northern part of Jiangxi Province in southeastern China.

One of the most renowned mountain in the country.

Part of the Lushan National Park, a world heritage site since 1996.

Liu Tongsheng went during 1613.

Mountain inscribed with words of poets and famous recluses. As well as hagiographers of Buddhism and Daoism.

Shitao. Waterfall on Mount Lu. Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk.

Guo Xi, Early Spring,dated1072. Hanging Scroll, ink and pale colors on silk.

Unlike others his writings focus on a single feature of the mountain.

The San Shi Liang or The Three Bridge of Stone.

Detail from: Shitao. Waterfall on Mount Lu. Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk.

Sheng Maoye, Waterfall on Mount Lu. Hanging Scroll, ink and color on silk.

Search for this place was prompted by the poem “The Silver He, turned upside down, is suspended from three bridges of stone.” Written by Li Bai

Unlike Li Bai his description is more map like.

Excerpt from-

I am the madman of the Chu country Who sang a mad song disputing Confucius. ...Holding in my hand a staff of green jade, I have crossed, since morning at the Yellow Crane Terrace, All five Holy Mountains, without a thought of distance, According to the one constant habit of my life. Lu Mountain stands beside the Southern Dipper In clouds reaching silken like a nine-panelled screen, With its shadows in a crystal lake deepening the green water… 

A SONG OF LU MOUNTAIN TO CENSOR LU XUZHOU

Shitao, Eight Veiws of Huang shan. Fount of Sounding Strings. Leaf five from album, ink and pale color on paper.

Li Yin, Mountains and Lake in the Winter. Hanging Scroll, ink on silk

Shitao, Eight Views of the South. Platform of the flower-soaking rains. Leaf Six of eight. Ink and pale color on paper