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Album of Landscape Paintings Illustrating Old Poems: Listening to the Qin

1745
album leaf; ink and light color on paper

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The figure in pink is playing a qin , a seven-stringed zither. The sound of the musical instrument symbolizes the harmony between humanity and nature; literati are often depicted playing qin in landscape settings.

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