Fan page of Li Liufang imitating Miyun Mountain

[Fan page of Li Liufang’s Miyun Mountain Map]

Fan page of Miyun Mountain Map, Ming Dynasty, Li Liufang’s painting, gold paper, ink pen, 17.7cm vertically and 54cm horizontally
The fan page has its own title: “Ding Mao imitates Mijia Mountain in autumn. Li Liufang.” The seal is “Li Liufang’s seal”
This picture is painted in the same year as the fan page of Li’s Landscape Painting in the Palace Museum, that is, the seventh year of Tianqi (1627). It is a misty and changeable landscape map drawn by Li in his later years, imitating the “ink trick” of Mi Fu and Mi Youren of the Song Dynasty. The distant mountains in the fan are dotted with “falling eggplant chap” (i.e. “rice dot chap”), and the ink with water is horizontal, overlapping and forming, which not only enhances the misty feeling of water and gas in the picture, enriches the distant and near levels of the mountains, but also shows the majestic momentum of the mountains in the vast expanse. The trees in the close view are also dotted horizontally with ink, and the flexible ink points are independent and connected with each other. They show the poetic meaning of “several trees are newly opened and the green shadow is even, and the wind is attracted by the spring” with the same ink