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"title": "Six Dynasties of Chinese Painting (Chinese art rotation)",
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"did_you_know": "The three figures are painted with \"nail-head and mouse-tail\" brushstrokes.",
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"description": "Listening to the Qin recalls the story of Bo Ya, a musician who loved to play the qin (a seven-stringed zither) for Zhong Ziqi, who was a discerning listener. The cool shade of the pine trees and the incense wafting from the burner complemented the atmosphere created by the music. After Zhang died, Bo refused to play the instrument ever again. The intimate format of the album leaf focuses on the music as the key to stir the heart and soul of both player and listener.",
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Published as: High Mountain and Flowing Water",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cListening to the Ch'in by Liu Sung-Nien.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 73, no. 9, 1986, pp. 372\u2013387.",
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"citation": "T\u014dy\u014d kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kur\u012bvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [\u6771\u6d0b\u7d75\u753b\u306e\u7cbe\u83ef : \u7279\u522b\u5c55 : \u30af\u30ea\u30fc\u30f4\u30e9\u30f3\u30c8\u7f8e\u8853\u9928\u306e\u30b3\u30ec\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u304b\u3089 = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.",
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"citation": "Addiss, Stephen, Kenneth J. DeWoskin, and Mitchell Clark. The resonance of the qin in East Asian art. New York: China Institute Gallery, China Institute, 1999.",
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"citation": "Helen Dunn Grinnell, \"Exhibition Reviews\" Orientations, vol. 31, no. 1 January 2000.",
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"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 17.3, p. 297",
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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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