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Famous as a poet, painter, and calligrapher, Fa Ruozhen pursued a career in government and eventually attained the rank of lieutenant governor for Anhui Province. He was removed from office in 1670 for complicity in a financial scandal involving the great Nanjing art collector Zhou Lianggong (1612-1672) and spent his remaining years in retirement. Known for his scholarly calligraphy, Fa Ruozhen followed the styles established by masters of the Wei and Jin dynasties (3rd-5th century C.E.), and his technique in writing large characters, as seen here, was particularly admired. In the first two lines of this dense poem, he describes building a rural retreat called the Little Pearl Tower:
One can excavate the hillside in back of Golden Peak,
And build a Little Pearl Tower beside the Orchid Creek . . .
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