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Dai Xi

Rain-coming Pavilion by the Stone Bridge at Mt. Tiantai

1848
handscroll, ink on paper

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Dai Xi actively resisted the Taiping rebels and drowned himself after their 1860 capture of his hometown, Hangzhou. For this loyal deed, Dai was posthumously rewarded with a temple built in his name.

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