View of Lake Tai dated 1543 Wen Zhengming Chinese Wen Zhengming painted this dreamy vision of Lake Tai, China's "Great Lake," for a friend after their springtime boat ride together. Wen's poem reads:Islands spread out in a mirror,Like purple hibiscus immersed in a watery silver can hold thirty-thousand jing [the supposed size of Lake Tai] in his bosom?I long to visit the seventy peaks [of Lake Tai] for is vast, billows roll on, days turn into the spring cold the water country hides fish and dragons;Sitting in the middle of the lake I seemed to hear roosters
View of Lake Tai dated 1543 Wen Zhengming Chinese Wen Zhengming painted this dreamy vision of Lake Tai, China's "Great Lake," for a friend after their springtime boat ride together. Wen's poem reads:Islands spread out in a mirror,Like purple hibiscus immersed in a watery silver can hold thirty-thousand jing [the supposed size of Lake Tai] in his bosom?I long to visit the seventy peaks [of Lake Tai] for is vast, billows roll on, days turn into the spring cold the water country hides fish and dragons;Sitting in the middle of the lake I seemed to hear roosters [crow] and dogs should I find the retired statesman Fan Li?. View of Lake Tai 45779
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