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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2009-01-09 07:33 pm
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Rejoicing

There was a package waiting for me when I got home last night: [livejournal.com profile] mvrdrk's Christmas present. But I saved it for today to open (Friday, birthday, end of looong week.)

It's a modern Chinese landscape-- painting? print? 'After Overnight Rain'--

In the mountains after a night of rain, the trees turn out hundreds of waterfalls

as the translation on the back says. (And I was able to read almost all of that in the Chinese except for the 'turn out' hanzi.)

Because google is everyone's friend, I found it online, and you may get an idea what it looks like here. Which does no justice to the detailing and the green of the trees and hills and the brightness of their trunks and the faint blush of dawn on the highest mountain at the top rising above a valley of mist, but should give you an inkling of its beauty.

Thank you so much, L!
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[personal profile] incandescens 2009-01-10 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
That's gorgeous. Happy birthday!

[identity profile] mvrdrk.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Print of a painting. I don't think she sells her originals.

I had a long talk with the artist and I forget who the poet was, but it's a classical poem and not one of the artists. It reminded me of Pipang ... I'll have to go find the poem.

I'm glad you like it!

[identity profile] nekonexus.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Very cool. ^_^

Happy birthday!!

[identity profile] mvrdrk.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, I must take that back, early 1900's poet in HK: 黎國廉

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Cool. Do you have the text of the poem anywhere? That hanzi is bugging me.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Isn't it? And thanks.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] mvrdrk.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Sure! The full poem in simplified:
万壑树参天,千山响杜鹃。山中一夜雨,树杪百重泉。
汉女输橦布,巴人讼芋田。文翁翻教授,不敢倚先贤。

[identity profile] deepfryerfire.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Hippo Birdies!

[identity profile] tammylee.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
It's beautiful!
<3

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. But how 杪 turns into something with about eight strokes on the right side beats me.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
2 ewe. Thanks.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Even more so when you can see it properly.

[identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 07:10 am (UTC)(link)
It's beautiful!

Once again ... HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ^__^

[identity profile] abyss-goat.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy BD Lady~! I just got back from Japan on Friday myself. Riko sent something along for me to send out to you - will do so on monday along with something I picked out. Sorry about the belatedness. :D

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Welcome back! and oh you shouldn't have.

But I do envy you your onsen experience. Steaming water to my neck, ohhhh. (Has been chopping ice for two hours.)

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks very much.

Been busy lately?

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Definitely covetable. But a print from a local artist in the Pacific NW, Vivian Chao... well, you might want to ask L about prices.

[identity profile] mvrdrk.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh? I'll have to look it up in traditional!

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Mandarintools is of the opinion that trad and simplified are the same. Which, now I think of it, seems a bit unlikely for that element.
ext_8660: A calico cat (mike wah!)

[identity profile] mikeneko.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
*confetti*

(Late confetti, mind you. But the cleanup time's about the same.)

[identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com 2009-01-11 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
hee BUSY??? well I haven't been chopping ice *sigh* but the good ol' pins are still getting a good workout ... to get rid of the Christmas Kilos.

I meant to make huge Squeeful Christmas post ... which didn;t happen
I meant to make a New Year one, which also didn;t happen
I meant to and have to set aside time for big 'boy grows up and goes to big school' post because it's huge for me ... which I hope to make sure happen at some point!

I think I will since it was a very kind of insane week for me which the boy sailed through with no problems of course. Only Mama now has more white hairs on her head. Which could have been a build up from last years hospital visits ... who knows.

But but re: your earlier post ohhh Pinot Noir. I don't indulge in wine too much but when I do ... that would have been the choice for me. It's lovely and eminently quaffable. ^__^

edited because I can't spell!
Edited 2009-01-11 02:10 (UTC)

[identity profile] avalonjones.livejournal.com 2009-01-11 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Happy birthday, sorry I missed it... there's a late New Year card on the way, dropped it into the postbox today...

[identity profile] mvrdrk.livejournal.com 2009-01-11 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
traditional characters:
萬壑樹參天,千山響杜鵑。
山中一夜雨,樹杪百重泉。
漢女輸橦布,巴人訟芋田。
文翁翻教授,不敢倚先賢。

I may have to look at the text on the painting...

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-01-11 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
(hoovers confetti) Thanks.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2009-01-11 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
And now I have your address I can send you mine.