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Luo Ping (Chinese, 1733-1799)

當我死去 我的話將如落葉般 飄散

我所做過的一切 都將草草地 吹去四方

這既令人心碎 又啼笑皆非

反正它們 並非真正屬於我

無所執著 你便能自由地 做任何事

When I die my words will scatter like fallen leaves.

All I have made blown carelessly to the Four Corners.

This is both heartbreaking and amusing.

They are not really mine anyway.

Hold on to nothing, you become free to do anything.

─ Han Shan 寒山

● 寒山 Han Shan ，寒山和尚，唐代著名詩僧，居浙江天台寒巖，因稱寒山子或寒山。寒山、拾得、豐幹三人一起隱居於天台山國清寺，被譽為“國清三隱”。好吟詩唱偈，有詩三百馀首，後人輯為《寒山子詩集》三卷。(9th century) He was a Chinese Buddhist and Taoist figure associated with a collection of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the Taoist and Chan tradition. No one knows who he was, when he lived and died, or whether he actually existed. In the Chinese Buddhist tradition, Hanshan and his sidekick Shide are honored as emanations of the bodhisattvas Mañjuśrī and Samantabhadra, respectively. In Japanese and Chinese paintings, Hanshan is often depicted together with Shide or with Fenggan, another monk with legendary attributes.

Little is known of his work, since he was a recluse living in a remote region and his poems were written on rocks in the mountains he called home. Of the 600 poems he is thought to have written at some point before his death, 313 were collected and have survived. Among the 57 poems attributed to Hanshan's friend, Shide, seven appear to be authored by Hanshan, for a total of 320. 

● Painting by Luo Ping 羅聘 (1733–1799) was one of the most versatile, original, and celebrated artists in eighteenth-century China. The youngest of the so-called Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, he was a fiercely independent artist whose works—including portraits, landscapes, and flower paintings—deeply influenced the course of later Chinese painting. Organized by the Museum Rietberg, Zurich, the exhibition, which consists of thirty-seven paintings by Luo Ping, members of his family, and his mentor Jin Nong, is drawn primarily from leading museums in China and features a number of National Treasures that have never been shown in the West. In New York it is complemented by about a dozen works from the Museum's collection and from several local private lenders. 

Luo Ping (Chinese,1733-1799)

Pine, 1775