“Guarding the Phoenix Tree, Listening to the Sound of Books” – Seal Script Couplet by Shangguan Xiongying Yang Huijun striking a balance between structure

striking a balance between structure and freedom

It features Su Shi’s ci-poem “Butterfly Loves Flowers” (Spring Scene)

Her works have been widely exhibited in China and abroad

” represents one of the foundational masterpieces of Chinese calligraphy in the Wei-Jin period

“Guarding the Phoenix Tree, Listening to the Sound of Books” – Seal Script Couplet by Shangguan Xiongying Yang Huijun striking a balance between structureDescription : This elegant seal script (Zhuan Shu) couplet is a self composed work by Fujian artist Shangguan Xiongying, expressing a poetic mood of solitude, aspiration, and scholarly joy. The words describe a scene where one cultivates the heart under tall phoenix trees (), where old phoenixes restsymbolizing nobility and peacewhile the window frames beautiful waters, and the ear listens not to noise, but to the boundless sounds of books. Executed