Even flow

- Yubing is my aunt, the wife of my dad's younger brother. She comes from a family of artists, her father and uncle--twins--were both famous painters. I have one of the uncle's coffee table books.

Titling painting
Yubing's request

Leisurely enjoying reading books quietness play piano
Relaxation time to sing songs poems solo
Lady's heart mails sorrow but no destination
On tatami pondering longing for responding memo


- From the third section of Gonggong's volume named Yenxi (swallow bird) after a little stream that flowed through the village in Fujian province where he lived with his bank colleagues for a while. The landfill that accumulated at the mouth of this river would flood occasionally. The bank built many levees to prevent the water from backflowing.
- Ox Head Mountain is on the border between Jiangxi (Gan) and Fujian (Ming) provinces.
- During Japanese invasion, they often used mountain roads because they were difficult to travel, narrow and steep.
- Mountain water is used as a compound word to mean topography or terrain
- Sheep intestine is often used to describe a narrow curving road
- Sudao is a road to Sichuan famous for its difficult passage

Ox Head Mountain Peak

Ming Gan mountain water too crooked zigzag
Ox Head ranging peaks layers of summits
Fast flowing valley bottom streams sound deafening
Dark shaded rock side trees look cold
Narrow turns dangerous slopes three hundred degrees
Sheep intestine path curves one thousand times
Setting sun lowers west autumn wind gusts
Even more difficult and treacherous than Sudao