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Spring Rain of the River Gorge

This is the roughly translated title of the painting. The Chinese title is "Chun Yu".

This painting depicts a portion of the famous gorges of the Yangzi (Yangtze) River. Look closely and you will see a small boat waiting to sail up the river. Up on a bluff, a small house sits, overlooking the river below.

Some of this view is now buried under the rising water from the huge Three-Gorges Dam project. Regardless of you political views, and campaigns from around the world that seek to stop the project, it is already happening.

I took a boat on a three-day journey down the Yangzi River in 2004, so that I would get a change to see these gorges in all of their splendor, before portions of them are submerged forever. If you want to see the gorges, I would make your trip plans within the next two years. The dam is almost complete, and the water rises several inches each week.

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About the artist and artwork

This was painted by (Le Ran) who is obviously a talented artist. The artist's signature is very stylized, and I couldn't read it, so I asked the artist what printed Chinese characters corresponded with the pronunciation this surname - those are the characters that you see at the beginning of this paragraph.

This is painted on xuan paper (rice paper) with a silk matting/border. Painted with special Chinese black ink and water color.