Drawing axis of Luopin Sword Pavilion

[Axis of Luo Pin’s Sword Pavilion]

Axis of the Sword Pavilion, made by Luo Pin in the Qing Dynasty, paper, color, 100.3 cm vertically and 27.4 cm horizontally
Located between Dajianshan and Xiaojianshan in the northeast of Jiange County, Sichuan Province, Jiange is the only way for ancient people to enter Sichuan from Shaanxi, and is famous for its precipitousness. “The Painting of Sword Pavilion” is a panoramic composition, which makes people feel like they are in danger. A line of merchants in the near part of the picture slowly walked to the Xiejiao shop under the rocks beside the water. The hills behind the shop overlapped, the winding paths circled, and the green trees shaded. On the wooden bridge on the bank of the river, three or five travelers rushed across. The dangerous plank road is winding and clinging to the cliff according to the mountain situation, and is indistinctly connected with the floating haze on the mountainside. Such as the Lian Feiwaterfall falling over the cliff, the pines and cypresses are all over the peaks, and the strange peaks stand on the wall and face the clouds. Xiongguan is located in the towering mountains, which shows more Cuiwei momentum. In the picture, the layout is tight, and the rocks are mostly made of dry ink, with dignified ink color and elegant brushwork. The majestic peak is lightly covered with light ochre and green ancient wood, which not only enriches the picture level, but also adds some beauty to the strange and dangerous scenery of Sichuan Road
According to Luo Pin’s own question, this picture was painted by him for Mr. Zhang Daowu, who is going to work in Jianzhou. Although Luo Pin has never seen the towering mountains of the Shu Road, he skillfully expressed the magnificent and wonderful scenery of the sword pavilion “one man on duty, ten thousand people can’t open” described in Li Bai’s poem “Difficult Shu Road” with his rich imagination and exquisite ink skills, which is really admirable. At the top left of this picture is Weng Fanggang’s postscript, with Wu Xilin, Zhang Wentao, Zhao Huaiyu, Shao Jinhan, Sun Xingyan, Song Baochun, Jiang Jian and other postscripts on the edge
When Zhang Daowu entered Sichuan, it was the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong’s reign (1794). According to people’s inscriptions and postscripts, this picture was made in August of that year, when Luo Pin was 62 years old.