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Sikong Tu of the late Tang dynasty wrote a Critique of Poetry in twenty-four chapters.  His chapter \"On Refining\" states, \"Like extracting gold from a mine, like extracting silver from lead, purify your heart and discard the remains.\"  This way of refining poetry when painting, one should also use this method for refinement.  Man of Ba, Hasheng, at Jincheng [Chengdu].  \r\n(The remainder to the right is a complete text of Tao Yuanming's \"Peach Blossom Spring\")\r\n\r\n1同“补”\r\n2司空图 《二十四诗品》之七“洗炼”：如礦出金，如鉛出銀。超心煉冶，絕愛緇磷。空潭泻春，古镜照神。体素储洁，乘月返真。载瞻星辰，载歌幽人。流水今日，明月前身。\r\n “绝爱缁磷”，对没有用的花哨表面不要恋恋不舍，要勇于删减 to be concise and pithy","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"<span lang=\"EN\"><p>–2008\tJerome Silbergeld and Michelle DeKlyen (Princeton, NJ), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2008.</p></span>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Multivocal Label","textentryhtml":"<p>\n\tLi Huasheng creates an idealized image of reclusive  life by depicting the Peach Blossom Spring described  in a celebrated essay by the poet–politician Tao Qian  (365–427), which is transcribed at the top of the  scroll. The painting invites the viewer to wander through the imagined landscape. The journey begins  with the boat in the lower-right corner and continues to a row of blooming peach trees followed by a  cave, suggested at the middle left. In the upper part  of the painting, the journey concludes with the arrival  at the fantastic village of Peach Blossom Spring. With abstracted forms and succinct, bold brush- strokes, Li playfully translates the classical theme into a modern language of the so-called “new literati painting school.”\n</p>\n<p><b>\n\tYixu Chen</b>, PhD candidate, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University\n</p>","remarks":"ASIA2_14_CLA  Day 1 Cataloguing"}],"datebegin":1986,"sortnumber":"2008 1088","published_date":"2026-03-31 02:39:54.589376","objectid":55947,"dimensions":"Painting: 136.8 × 69 cm (53 7/8 × 27 3/16 in.)\r\nmount: 226.5 × 81.9 cm (89 3/16 × 32 1/4 in.)\r\nwith knob: 87.2 cm (34 5/16 in.)","on_view":true}