Old Trees, Pheasants, and Crows in Winter

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This painting, by the southern artist Luo Zhichuan, demonstrates the renewed interest in the brush idioms of the Northern Song artists Li Cheng (919\u2013967) and Guo Xi (ca. 1000\u2013ca. 1090) after the Mongol conquest forcefully reunified North and South China in 1279. Luo's painting may be read as a bleak commentary on life under the Mongols, for the image of a wintry grove of trees has long been understood as a metaphor for likeminded men enduring political adversity. Similarly, the two male pheasants on the foreground shore symbolize scholars living in reclusion, the varied pattern (wen) of their plumage a symbol of literary cultivation (also wen). Luo contrasts their stoic endurance to the agitated movement of dozens of circling crows\u2014a reference to petty opportunists.

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