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that? also? martial/Wu? his generation? day? Wei then? food Zhang? fate of? section/Duan?
This section is severely damaged. The visible characters—including "Wei" (a possible reference to the Wei Dynasty), "Zhang" (a common surname), and "decree/fate"—suggest this may have been a historical commentary or a colophon that has been lost to time and moisture.
[Seal: Snow Corridor original: Xuelang (雪廊). Likely the art-name of the collector or the person who commissioned the mounting of this scroll.]
original: Leifeng Xizhao. This is one of the "Ten Scenes of West Lake" in Hangzhou. The scene is famous for the way the evening sun illuminates the reddish brick of the pagoda, creating a glowing silhouette against the hills.
Painted by Daliu in the third month of the Jiawu year.
The Jiawu year in this context refers to 1894. This painting was created thirty years before the pagoda's eventual collapse in 1924. By 1894, the pagoda’s wooden exterior galleries had been gone for centuries (lost to fire), leaving only the weathered brick core, which appears in many late Qing dynasty artworks as a rugged, plant-covered pillar.
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The panel on the far left consists of a blank section of gold-leaf paper. In traditional Chinese scroll culture, these blank areas (known as waiti) were often left for future owners or famous scholars to add their own poetic reflections or "colophons." In this case, it remains unwritten.