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Mei Qing was born into a prominent family in Xuancheng, Anhui Province, about seventy-five miles south of Nanjing. Mei followed the family tradition of scholarship. By age sixteen he had become a prefectural-level student (zhusheng), and in 1642 he published his first collection of poems. He lived in retirement during the first decade of the Qing dynasty.Strolling in a Misty Valley is Mei\u2019s earliest extant work, done shortly after he moved to a new family residence in a scenic area south of Xuancheng. The painting shows him working in the dry, linear style typical of a number of late Ming painters, with angular rock formations and craggy pines loosely organized along a serpentine stream. Its style vaguely recalls the landscape forms of Huang Gongwang (1269\u20131354) and the spare brush idiom of Ni Zan (1306\u20131374). Painted just five years after the fall of the Ming dynasty, its allusions to these recluse-artists, who lived under the Mongol Yuan dynasty, clearly signal Mei\u2019s own situation and loyalist sentiments.Above the peaks, Mei inscribed a poem and dedication:In the valley clouds and mist often obscure one\u2019s view,I am pleased that the pines and rocks in front of my door are peaceful.My song over, I drag my staff along as I cross the stream;My picture captures the green mountains, I look upon it with satisfaction.On an autumn day in the jichou year [1649], I present this to my teacher Old Li for his instruction.The Daoist of Qushan, Mei Qing

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