This painting shows six trees planted in rows on the slope. The lake is wide without waves, and the rivers and mountains are remote and empty. The weather is cold and sunny. According to Li Rihua, these six trees are pine, cypress, camphor, nanmu, locust and elm, which are symbolic. Huang's poem points out: "In fact, compared with the six gentlemen, they are upright and impartial." The painting method of "Hillside Stone" is detached from Dong Yuan, and it is a square-folded pen with both rigidity and softness.
The tree is simple and sparse with a pen, which seems to inadvertently contain bone strength. Therefore, Wang Duo commented in the inscription: "A simple painter is not thin."
In the picture frame, write a self-title to describe the painting process. This painting was painted in the fifth year of Zheng Zheng (A.D. 1345), when Ni Zan was forty-five years old. There are also poems such as Yuan, Dead Wood Lying Man, Zhao Jin and Qian Yun in the frame. There are inscriptions by Dong Qichang, Wang Duo, Zhou Shouchang, Xu Naipu and Chen Rong in the poem pool.
The town of Ni Zan (A.D. 130 1- 1374) was named Yunlinzi, dreaming of Xia Zi. Wuxi (now Jiangsu). Rich family. At the end of the yuan dynasty, it was sold to a farmhouse and a wandering lake. He is good at ink and wash landscapes, lives in Dongyuan, and studies Hao Jing and Guan Tong. Most of the works are based on the scenery around Taihu Lake, and the artistic conception is unpretentious. His painting style had a great influence on literati landscape painting in Ming and Qing Dynasties. And Huang, Wang Meng and Zhenwu are also called "Yuan Sijia".