【Fuchun Villa】

In 1374, Huang Gongwang, the best of the four painters in Yuan Dynasty, with the alternative name of “Silly Taoist Priest”, found seclusion on the bank of Fuchun Lake, Hangzhou in his old age. At the grand old age of eighty he perceived that life was wide and long, so he spent ten years creating the most excellent representative work of his life called “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains”, his posterity praised it as the “Orchid Pavilion Preface in Paintings”, the historical work influenced the mainstream of water and ink paintings of Ming and Qing Dynasties for over six hundred years. The painting was divided into two scrolls due to a big fire at the beginning of Qing Dynasty, now the first scroll which is 51cm long is stored in Zhejiang Provincial Museum, while the second scroll 640cm long is stored in the Imperial Palace Museum in Taipei.