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Lu Hong
Tang recluse of Mount Song who declined a court post in 718 and is the traditional author of the Ten Views from a Thatched Lodge
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 Also named Hongyi · Zi Haoran
Lu Hong, also called Hongyi, courtesy name Haoran, came from Fanyang, moved to Luoyang and lived as a learned recluse on Mount Song, skilled in seal and clerical script. Emperor Xuanzong sent gifts and summonses early in the Kaiyuan era without success; after a further edict in 717 he finally came to Luoyang in 718, where he declined to bow at the audience. Offered the post of remonstrance counsellor, he refused it, and the emperor sent him back to the mountain with a recluse's robe, a thatched lodge and a yearly allowance of grain and silk. The Ten Views from a Thatched Lodge handscroll in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, showing ten sites around his retreat, is traditionally attributed to him.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; summoned to Luoyang in 718