"Xin Chou" was the eighteenth year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (166 1). The recipient's name is Luo Zi, and he is a Confucian scholar who believes in Buddhism. There is a small postscript in the Luo and Zhou Dynasties: "Master Wu Dao has long admired Jian Jiang's brushwork, and this belongs to him, so I give it to him." There is also a poem inscribed by Hong Ren's nephew Jiang, "My teacher wrote Niyuyi, and the ancient wooden pavilion was faint. Excellent pot epiphyllum is in the question, and the secret of Zen is precious to the princes. Write a teacher's pen for the public. "
As a painter of Ming adherents, Hong Ren stepped forward and participated in anti-Qing activities at the time of national peril. After the death of the Ming dynasty, he disappeared into the rivers and lakes and sent poems and paintings. Looking forward to the early realization of the motherland, he wrote a poem saying: "I accidentally dropped my pen and ink on the ground, and the beautiful terraced fields were messed up and then deleted." Don't ask flowers and plants, just write Zhongshan. "Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum is the location of Ming Taizu Xian Yuanzhang Mausoleum. This poem is sad and melancholy, expressing Hong Ren's loyalty and integrity, and making his paintings tend to Ni Zan's style. The desolate artistic conception in Ni's paintings aroused his soul. This painting was made by Hong Ren when he lived in Wuming Temple in Shexian in his later years. The painting style is a variation of Ni Zan, with a plane layout, with a pavilion near the slope, towering pines behind the pavilion, omitting shallow water, making the foreground an independent subject, strengthening the expression of rock structure and producing a relatively peaceful intimacy. The pen used to draw uphill stones is a unique folding belt in Ni Zan. If it is light or sparse, it has inherent bone strength. The outline of the tree is also touched by simple brushwork, and the center is drawn again, which seems simple and light, but in fact it is full of embellishment. As commented in "On the Painting of the Xuan": "The extremely thin place is full, and the extremely thin place is rich. It's light, but it's memorable. "Hong Ren imitates Ni, not for the pursuit of Ni Zan's painting. He widely absorbed the achievements of predecessors, took their ideas instead of imitating Ni Zan and Huang, and at the same time took nature as a teacher to express his thoughts, thus forming the basic characteristics of his landscape paintings. This painting can also be seen.
This picture shows Zhang Daqian's collection. The collection in the lower left corner is printed with "Dafeng Hall" and "Treasure of Daqian" in white.