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Calligraphic Scroll with Text in Draft Script (Caoshu)
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The calligraphy is the text of the Tang-dynasty poem "Playng the Guqin" by Liu Changqing (709-780 CE, China) and may be translated as follows:
The melody flows out of a seven-string guqin.
Quietly I listen to the old tune “Pine Wind.”
These kinds of old tunes are what I most adore.
But today people seldom play them any more.
Department of Asian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of James H. Soong in memory of Kevin James Foster
Title: Calligraphic Scroll with Text in Draft Script (Caoshu)
Description:
The calligraphy is the text of the Tang-dynasty poem "Playng the Guqin" by Liu Changqing (709-780 CE, China) and may be translated as follows:
The melody flows out of a seven-string guqin.
Quietly I listen to the old tune “Pine Wind.
”
These kinds of old tunes are what I most adore.
But today people seldom play them any more.
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