Sanli Chen’s holographic calligraphy hanging scrolls - 陳三立(散原老人)自書詩軸

Sanli Chen, known as Sanyuan (pseudonyms) was born in Jiangxi, China. Chen was a reformer, excellent poet and educator in the late Qing dynasty. He was an active member of Hundred Days’ Reform (a national political movement in 1898). After the reform fails, he went back to Jiangxi and refused to participate in politics, which gave Chen a lot of time to work on poems. He was given a title as “the last traditional Chinese poet” for his poetry achievement. Chen is also a pioneer educator. He promoted new-style pedagogy in a school in which there is no old requirement such as studying eight-parts essays for passing imperial examinations.

陳三立，號散原，江西人。曾積極參與戊戌政變，政變失敗後，陳三立返鄉而不再問政事，並以詩會友，開始詩文創作，被後世喻為中國最後一位傳統詩人。除了文學創作，陳三立積極推廣新式教育，並於創辦的學堂開始廢除舊教育體制，成為新式教學的先鋒。

After snow stops, it immediately starts drizzling. Living in a wild place is like settling in another world. Cold and warm currents against each other cause clouds restlessly to drift away, which allows me to examine valley landscape thoroughly. (This place is so quiet). A rustling noise and crunching of dry leaves serve as a cue telling me there are visitors. Water sounds of a flooding stream trigger me to play a qin (an ancient Chinese stringed instrument) to accompany the natural music. Rains dampen wings of a solitary eagle. It flies and throws off water in the evening sunshine.

脫雪俄飛雨，荒居別有天。一雲爭冷暖，眾壑閱媸妍。響葉疑來屐，添泉倚奏弦。孤鷹濕毛翮，騰汝夕陽邊。

Postscript: watching rainfall in mountains; Signature: Sanyuanlaoren, Sanli, Chen

題跋: 山居對雨; 款識: 怡怡夫人鑒, 散原老人陳三立.

1) Zhi yu zhi shang; 2) Tse Tsung Chow; 3) Sanli Chen; 4) Sanyuan man

1) 止于至賞; 2) 周策縱; 3) 陳三立; 4) 散原翁