Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy
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![Eulogy Stone](https://arthistorypi.org/media/uw/images/_span10/Xue_Plate_2_Eulogy_Stone.jpg)
Eulogy for Burying a Crane. Jiaoshan Stone Inscription Museum, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. Author’s photo, 2011.
![Fragment of Eulogy Stone](https://arthistorypi.org/media/uw/images/_span10/Xue_Plate_5_Fragment_3.jpg)
Fragment no. 3 of Eulogy for Burying a Crane. Jiaoshan Stone Inscription Museum. Author’s photo, 2011.
![Fragment of Eulogy Stone](https://arthistorypi.org/media/uw/images/_span10/Xue_Plate_6_Fragment_4.jpg)
Fragment no. 4 of Eulogy for Burying a Crane. Jiaoshan Stone Inscription Museum. Author’s photo, 2011.
![Bronze hu vessel with a crane](https://arthistorypi.org/media/uw/images/_span10/Xue_fig-1.04_Bronze_hu_vessel_with_a_crane.jpg)
Bronze hu vessel. Eastern Zhou dynasty. 118 cm (height). From Xinzheng, Henan. Palace Museum, Beijing. From Zhongguo meishu quanji: Gongyi meishu bian 5: plate 13.
![Immortal riding a crane](https://arthistorypi.org/media/uw/images/_span10/Xue_fig-1.05_Immortal_riding_a_crane.jpg)
Immortal riding on a crane. Fifth century. Tomb mural at Tonggou, Jilin. From Zhongguo meishu quanji: Huihua bian 12: plate 82.
![Huang Tingjian, Scroll for Zhang Datong, detail](https://arthistorypi.org/media/uw/images/_span10/Xue_fig-2.06a_Huang_Tingjian_scroll_det1.jpg)
Detail from Huang Tingjian, Scroll for Zhang Datong. Dated 1100. Handscroll, ink on paper, 34.1 × 552.9 cm. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton. Gift of John B. Elliott. Photo by Bruce M. White.
![Moya inscriptions](https://arthistorypi.org/media/uw/images/_span10/Xue_fig-3.01_Moya_at_Jiaoshan.jpg)
Moya inscriptions at Floating Jade Rock (Fuyuyan), Jiaoshan. Author’s photo, 2017.
![Wen Jia, Landscape of Jinshan and Jiaoshan](https://arthistorypi.org/media/uw/images/_span10/Xue_fig-3.02_Wen_Jia_painting.jpg)
Wen Jia, Landscape of Jinshan and Jiaoshan. Dated 1563. Detail. Handscroll, ink and color on paper, 28.6 × 313.6 cm. Courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Gift of Wango H. C. Weng.
![Qiu Ying (attributed), Prosperous Scenes of the South Capital City](https://arthistorypi.org/media/uw/images/_span10/Xue_fig-3.06_Details_of_the_South_Capital_Views.jpg)
Qiu Ying (attributed), Prosperous Scenes of the South Capital City (Nandu fanhui tu). Late sixteenth century. Detail of a handscroll, ink and color on silk, 44 × 350 cm. National Museum of China, Beijing. The signs read (a) Model Letters from the Past and the Present (Gujin zitie), (b) Painting Studio (Huayu), (c) Bookshop (Shupu).
![Su Shi, Poems on Cold Food Festival in Huangzhou](https://arthistorypi.org/media/uw/images/_span10/Xue_fig-3.09_Su_Shi_Poems_on_Cold_food_Festival_in_Huangzhou.jpg)
Su Shi, Poems on Cold Food Festival in Huangzhou (Huangzhou hanshi shi tie). National Palace Museum, Taipei.
![Bao Shichen, calligraphy](https://arthistorypi.org/media/uw/images/_span10/Xue_fig-C.06_Bao_Shichen_calligraphy.jpg)
Bao Shichen, Copy after Zhang Xu’s Letter of “Qiushen.” Ink on paper, 167.5 × 89.5 cm. Yangzhou Museum. From Zhongguo meishu quanji: Shufa zhuanke bian 6: plate 67.
![Zhang Xu (attributed), calligraphy](https://arthistorypi.org/media/uw/images/_span10/Xue_fig-C.07_Zhang_Xu_calligraphy.jpg)
Zhang Xu (attributed), Letter of “Qiushen,” in Model Letters of the Frolicking Geese Hall. Courtesy of Harvard-Yenching Library, TP0002.
![View of Jiaoshan in the 1870s](https://arthistorypi.org/media/uw/images/_span10/Xue_Plate_1_Jiaoshan_in_1870s.jpg)
View of Jiaoshan in the 1870s. From John Thompson, Illustrations of China and Its People 3, vol. 3, plate 16. Photo by John Thompson.
![Boulders at Jiaoshan](https://arthistorypi.org/media/uw/images/_span10/Xue_fig-I.02_Boulders_at_Jiaoshan.jpg)
Boulders at the shore of Jiaoshan. Author’s photo, 2007.
![Rocks after the 2010 excavation at Jiaoshan](https://arthistorypi.org/media/uw/images/_span10/Xue_fig-C.20_Rocks_after_2010_excavation.jpg)
Rocks after the 2010 excavation at Jiaoshan (with the Lightning Striking Stone on the far right). Author’s photo, 2011.