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"inscription_translation": "Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals: \n\nThe time of Six Dynasties was full of eccentrics./ \nThey took refuge in Daoism or Buddhism./ \nThus came [the pair of] Zhidun and the Daoist priest Xu [Xun]:/ \nTheir sensibilities and ideals were fully in tune./ \nUnder a tall pine and ancient cliff,/ \nThey chatted away all day long. /\nGrand ambitions were cast away like the flowing stream/ \nIn quest for linked poetic lines./ \nPractical affairs were outside of their concerns./ \nThousands of autumns later, I come to realize the truth./\n\nRegarding the Chan Master Wuyun, his way is ancient and his actions pure. He has not involved himself in worldly affairs. He loves landscape and also belles lettres. In his old age, his spirit exceeds that of a king. He and I share much in common, he being a priest and I a layman. Consequently, I painted this Zhi Xu qing yan tu, and hope that he would enlighten me. \n\nDiesou Lan Ying, in the end of the seventh month, [the year of] kuiwei [1643].",
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"description": "Lan Ying\u2019s painting is a gift to his friend, the Chan monk Wuyun, in which he depicted two sages of the Six Dynasties period: the Buddhist monk Zhidun (314\u2013366 CE), and the Daoist priest Xu Xun (265\u2013420 CE). Meant to be understood as an analogy of the friendship between artist and monk, the painting also offered a retreat into the past, a year before the fall of the Ming dynasty.
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"citation": "Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015.",
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"citation": "Griswold, William, Xiaofei Tian, Richard Von Glahn, Feng Zhao, S. J. Vainker, Masaaki Itakura, Jiang Wu, et al. China\u2019s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. Edited by Clarissa von Spee. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
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