Four of the "Eight Poems of Du Fu's Qiu Xing" in running script (detail), length 23.5 cm, width 261.5 cm
Collection of Shanghai Museum (donated by Shen Tongyue)
This volume contains eight poems written by Du Fu in Qiuxing. The inscription: "This poem was written by me forty years ago. People today may not think it was written by me. Zi'ang emphasized the title. It was the seventeenth day of the first month of the second year of Zhizhi (1322)." From this we know that the volume was written in From the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty to the nineteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1282), the author was about 28 years old. The writing of this book is delicate, the structure is dignified and elegant, the writing is round and smooth, the muscles are strong and the bones are strong, giving people a sense of calmness, peace and tranquility.
