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<blockquote class="templatequote language"><p><i>The scholar-artist Mi Fu was an eccentric of the eleventh century, and one of the four great calligraphers of the Song dynasty. It was well-known that he had a peculiar admiration for certain rocks. In this period, men of culture collected and placed in their gardens rare and unusual rocks from Lake Tai, which had become pitted and worn by the actions of wind and waves over many centuries. Mi Fu believed that some these rocks had their own souls and he was in the habit of paying them his respects, by bowing before them as if they were venerable old gentlemen.</i></p><div class="templatequotecite">— Chester Beatty Library</div>
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Guo Xu (1456–c.1529)</div>
Dated 1503
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbl.ie/china/Item.aspx?itemId=18">‘Mi Fu bowing to a rock’</a>. <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbl.ie/china/">Telling Images of China</a></i> (2010 exhibit). Dublin: Chester Beatty Library.<br><small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbl.ie/china/app_themes/exhibit/img/exhibits/large/img9-9.jpg">(direct link to image)</a><br><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190453/http://www.cbl.ie/china/Item.aspx?itemId=18">(web archive link for work)</a><br><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100220031809/http://www.cbl.ie/china/">(web archive link for exhibit)</a></small>