Pu Ru (Pu Xinyu)
Calligraphy
1949
Scroll
Pu Ru (Pu Xinyu)
Calligraphy
1949
Physical Qualities
Ink on paper mounted on cardboard, Framed: 15 1/8 x 22 3/16 x 3/4 in.
Credit Line
Gift of the Estate of Kai-Yun Chiu, Baltimore, in Honor of Shu-Tsing Chiu
Object Number
2010.70
The calligraphy reads:
In reply to Zhou Qizi on the occasion of the Xiuxi Rite (during spring and autumn on a river)
The untrammeled spirit of Eastern Jin is far;
It is useless to be sorrowful about the ancient time.
High-mindedness of your colleagues now near the river;
Your wonderful poems are like those by Xuancheng.
You are like a hermit-fisherman in a fogged mountain;
Or like a dragon, deep in the sea that is not clear.
The cloud makes me think of the brave men,
But there is still war on heaven and earth.
Spring of 1950.
First Draft by Xinyu.
[translated by Jason Kuo, June 2015]
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2011; Kai-Yun Chiu, Baltimore; from her mother, Shu-Tsing Chiu; from the artist
Inscribed: Signed and dated.
