A spring scene

Hanging scroll by Wen Zhengming 文徵明 (1470-1559)

Image credit: National Palace Museum, Taipei

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(Detail of above) Inscription by Wen Zhengming

雨餘春樹綠陰成，

最愛西山向晚明。

應有人家在山足，

隔溪遙見白烟生。

As spring trees perfect their green shade after the rain,

The most delightful sight is the western hills glowing in the twilight.

There must be homes nestled at the foot of the hills,

Where white smoke rises in the distance, beyond the brook.

余為瀨石寫此圖，數日復來，使補一詩。時瀨石將北上。舟中讀之，得無尚有天平靈巖之憶乎。

I painted this for Laishi. After a few days, [he] visited again and asked for a poem [for the painting]. At the time, he was about to travel north. When he reads it in the boat, will he not recall our time at Tianping and Lingyan? [1]

丁卯十一月七日文壁記

Noted by Wen Bi [= Wen Zhengming] on the seventh day of the eleventh month in the dingmao year [=10 December, 1507]

[1] Tianping and Lingyan refer to two hills southwest of Suzhou city, which Wen Zhengming probably visited with his friend, as depicted in the painting.

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