Du Qiong drew a landscape map axis for Wu Kuan

[Du Qiong painted the landscape map axis for Wu Kuan]

The landscape map axis for Wu Kuan, painted by Du Qiong in the eighth year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (1472), is 108.2 cm long and 38.2 cm horizontal
This picture depicts deep mountains and deep valleys, streams, bridges, rivers, trees and grass houses, which are extremely remote. The composition is full and dense, the pen is beautiful, moist and vigorous, the painting style is discreet and elegant, the style is lofty and simple, and the artistic conception is deep and simple. The composition of this painting is similar to the situation of Yanyuan Pavilion described in Du Dongyuan’s Miscellaneous Works. Wu Kuan, a famous calligrapher of the Ming Dynasty, once wrote “The Story of Rebuilding Yanyuan Pavilion” for the painter. This painting is likely to draw the scenery of this pavilion and give it to Wu
The inscription on this page reads: “Du Qiong was the first prize writer of the original Bo during the Mid-Autumn Festival of the 8th Anniversary of Chenghua, which was seven years old at that time.”. The “eight years of Chenghua” is 1472 years. Wu Kuan won the first place in the joint examination and court examination in the eighth year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, so he was called the “Number One Scholar”.