Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain after 1162 Emperor Gaozong Chinese In 1162, at the age of fifty-five, Gaozong retired from the throne to devote his final years to the arts, especially the study of calligraphy. He began by following the styles of Huang Tingjian (1045-1105) and Mi Fu (1052-1107) but in his later years concen-trated on the works of Wang Xizhi (ca. 303-ca. 361) and other pre-Tang masters whose works he was able to collect and study firsthand. This fan clearly dates after 1162; written in the Wang style, it bears a seal with the name of Gaozong's retirement palace, Virtuous Longevity.The poem, laden with occult and astrological references, reads in part: Dark . . from Heavenly Mountain divides the turbid and the vast.Ministered by the second hexagram, the elixir pours in a liquid jade.As I stand at the north-northeast and the south-southwest gates of the compass,I see the flash of rosy lights, ten thousand feet in the air.. Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain. Emperor Gaozong (Ch

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Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain after 1162 Emperor Gaozong Chinese In 1162, at the age of fifty-five, Gaozong retired from the throne to devote his final years to the arts, especially the study of calligraphy. He began by following the styles of Huang Tingjian (1045-1105) and Mi Fu (1052-1107) but in his later years concen-trated on the works of Wang Xizhi (ca. 303-ca. 361) and other pre-Tang masters whose works he was able to collect and study firsthand. This fan clearly dates after 1162; written in the Wang style, it bears a seal with the name of Gaozong's retirement palace, Virtuous Longevity.The poem, laden with occult and astrological references, reads in part: Dark . . from Heavenly Mountain divides the turbid and the vast.Ministered by the second hexagram, the elixir pours in a liquid jade.As I stand at the north-northeast and the south-southwest gates of the compass,I see the flash of rosy lights, ten thousand feet in the air.. Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain. Emperor Gaozong (Ch

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