The painting reflects the characteristics of the romantic landscape, according to which the representation of things, if done well, contained the very essence of the things represented. The landscape in black ink and brush tempera on paper, lined on paper, imitates those of the Zhe Pai school. Performed by Cheng Gu, stage name Zhaoguang, painter of the Imperial Academy during the reign of Kangxi (1662-1722), at the "southern fragrance palace" inside the Forbidden City. He imitated the painters of the Song era, and achieved their own results. He was skilled in the landscape genre and in the painting of characters and in the genre of flowers and birds.