“Returning to the Countryside, Part One”Small Regular Script by Zhang Lei

Description:
This piece features “Returning to the Countryside, Part One” by Tao Yuanming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, rendered in small regular script by Zhang Lei from Beijing, China. The calligraphy is presented in an elegant fan-shaped layout, emphasizing harmony between poetry and brushwork.

Excerpt translation:
“From youth, unsuited to worldly airs, my nature has always loved the hills and mountains.
By mistake, I fell into the dusty net, and for thirty years was gone...”

• Title: Returning to the Countryside, Part One

• Script: Small Regular Script

• Size: 50 × 69 cm | 19 7/10 × 27 4/5 in

• Artist: Zhang Lei, member of Daxing District Calligraphers Association, Beijing, and committee member of its Creative Department.

One-of-a-kind original handwritten calligraphy work. Unframed.