Period:Unknown Production date:1994
Materials:paper
Technique:
Subjects:calligraphy
Dimensions:Height: 65.50 centimetres (image) Width: 45 centimetres (image)
Description:
Hanging scroll, calligraphy, made of black ink on gold-flecked paper, bearing a poem which dealt with the pleasurable prospect of one day returning west of the ‘Sunset Pass’.
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![图片[1]-calligraphy; hanging scroll BM-1996-0614-0.30-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Calligraphic works/mid_00476262_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-calligraphy; hanging scroll BM-1996-0614-0.30-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Calligraphic works/mid_00476283_001.jpg)
Comments:Barrass 2002:In the late 1980’s Wang Shixiang joined a group of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) to visit the grape festival at Tulupan (Turpan), in Xinjiang province. On the way there they drove through the so-called ‘Sunset Pass’, which the Chinese traditionally regard as the western limit of their civilization, beyond which lie the harsh lands of Central Asia. When the Tang dynasty poet Wang Wei (701-761) described this pass in his poem ‘Departure’, he lamented that once his friend had crossed it he would never meet anyone he knew. However, Wang Shixiang enjoyed himself so much at the festival that he decided to write this poem following the lines from the Tang poetry, but with the negative mood changed into a positive one.
Materials:paper
Technique:
Subjects:calligraphy
Dimensions:Height: 65.50 centimetres (image) Width: 45 centimetres (image)
Description:
Hanging scroll, calligraphy, made of black ink on gold-flecked paper, bearing a poem which dealt with the pleasurable prospect of one day returning west of the ‘Sunset Pass’.
IMG
Comments:Barrass 2002:In the late 1980’s Wang Shixiang joined a group of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) to visit the grape festival at Tulupan (Turpan), in Xinjiang province. On the way there they drove through the so-called ‘Sunset Pass’, which the Chinese traditionally regard as the western limit of their civilization, beyond which lie the harsh lands of Central Asia. When the Tang dynasty poet Wang Wei (701-761) described this pass in his poem ‘Departure’, he lamented that once his friend had crossed it he would never meet anyone he knew. However, Wang Shixiang enjoyed himself so much at the festival that he decided to write this poem following the lines from the Tang poetry, but with the negative mood changed into a positive one.
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