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Fang Congyi
Daoist priest of the Longhu Mountain Shangqing Temple whose loose ink landscapes of cloud-wrapped peaks stand out among late Yuan painting
A desk holds an unrolled sheet bearing three bold black ink strokes, with a rack of many brushes above it, a stone ink slab and ink stick, a porcelain bowl, a red lacquer box, a dish of red seal paste and a paperweight; a small seated figure shows through a round window onto bamboo.
Also known as Zi Wuyu · Hao Fanghu
Fang Congyi, courtesy name Wuyu, styled Fanghu and also Bumang Daoren and Jinmen Yuke, came from Guixi in Xinzhou, present-day Jiangxi, and was a Zhengyi Daoist priest of the Shangqing Temple on Longhu Mountain who had studied the Way under Jin Yueyan. A poet and calligrapher as well, he painted landscapes after Dong Yuan, Juran and the Mi father and son, setting down cloud-wrapped mountains in free, wet ink. Divine Mountains and Luminous Woods and the Gaogao Pavilion are in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, the former apparently showing the Qionglin terrace on Longhu Mountain, and Boating at Mount Wuyi is in the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Life and times
Dates Dates uncertain (by one account c. 1302–1393); active in the Zhizheng era at the end of the Yuan