Zhou Dunyi Admiring Lotuses
Lu Peng Chinese
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Resting comfortably on a garden rock, a gentleman gazes lovingly at a pond of blossoming lotus. This is Zhou Dunyi (1017–1073), a prominent scholar of the Northern Song dynasty who so admired the lotus that he authored a treatise entitled “On the Love of the Lotus” to celebrate his favorite flower. Zhou was a frequent subject for painters, especially in late Qing Shanghai, where Lu Peng painted.
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