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A Study on the Hand Scroll of Listening to the Spring in Mount Fushan Painted and Presented by Lin Shu to Yao Yonggai

Liu Dong (Anhui Museum)   

  • Online:2025-04-15 Published:2025-04-24
  • About author:Liu Dong (Anhui Museum)

Abstract:

Lin Shu was a famous scholar of classical Chinese prose ,translator and calligrapher-painter during the late Qing and early Republican Era, and his friend Yao Yonggai was also a scholar of classical Chinese prose and an orthodox successor of the Tongcheng School. The two of them shared the same aspirations and sympathized with each other. The hand scroll Listening to the Spring in Mount Fushan which is collected in Anhui Museum is an important piece of evidence of the friendship between Lin Shu and Yao Yonggai. In the hand scroll, there are also several poems and prefaces written by scholars such as Shen Zengzhi, Xu Zongliang, Ma Qichang, Zheng Gao, Chen Yan, Zhang Xigong, Hu Chaoliang and others, addressed to Yao Yonggai. The content involves related topics such as the Tongcheng School and the Maxi Yao Family School, These contents are important literature material for studying the Tongcheng School.