Footnotes

• Zhai Yunsheng (Shuntang, Wenquan) was born in 1776 in Laizhou, and he received his jinshi degree in 1822. Highly regarded as a paleographer and as an authority on clerical script calligraphy, he authored or compiled several texts including Wujing suibian zhaijiao shu san zhong 五經歲徧齋校書三種 (1832-1848), and Li Pian 隸篇 (1837-1838). In this set of four hanging scrolls he extracts a section of Lu Ji's (206-303) Wenfu (Rhapsody on Literature), one of the most important essays of early Chinese literary theory. Originally written between the years 280-300, the essay touches on such themes as the writer's craft and inspiration.
  
  翟云升 陸士衡文賦 篆書四聯 水墨紙本 立軸
  
  款識：
  情曈曨而彌鮮，物昭晰而互進。傾群言之瀝液、漱六藝之芳潤。浮天淵以安流，濯下泉而潛浸。於是沉辭怫悅，若游魚銜鈎，而出重淵之深；浮藻聯翩，若翰鳥嬰繳，爾墜曾雲之峻。收百世之闕文，采千載之遺韻， 謝朝華於已披，啓夕秀於未振，觀古今於須臾，撫四海於一瞬。
  節錄陸士衡文賦一則
  文泉翟云升
  
  鈐印： [文泉][翟云升印]
  
  翟云升（1776-1858）字舜堂，号文泉，掖城东南隅村（今莱州市莱州镇东南隅村）人。道光二年（1822）进士，清代中后期著名古文字学家、书法家。

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