"landscape in the snow"
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Hecheng Ming dydasty

 
Hecheng was born in Jiangyin of Jiangsu with name Yanze, nickname Zhuhe master. He got the first successful candidatein 1403, and worked for the court, late he was thrown into the prison because of his aboil verbalism. In 1425, he was free. During the Xuande period, he stayed in Yuanzhou area, resting with the common people, which were paid a tribute at that area. One day, he was resting in the middle of one-hundred bamboo pole, and he called himself Zhuhe master (Zhuhe means bamboo crane). He was good at paint landscape. And his poem was full of rhythm, and had a dense style of Zhe faction. His famous works had the books of "cloud and mountain in ink" with the length of 96cm, the width of 28.2cm. Because his seldom works were kept to now, so this is a precious works.