Xū Gǔ (Hsü Ku, traditional: 虛谷, simplified: 虚谷); (c. 1824–1896) was a Chinese painter and poet during the

Qing Dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...

(1644–1912).

Early life and career

Xu was born in She County in the

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

province, and later lived in Guangling in the

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province. His style name was 'Xugu' and his

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was 'Ziyang Shanren'. Xu was an army official, and then later a monk. When painting he used the side of the brush in a fluent and bold style. In poetry he produced the work ''Poetry of Xugu monk''.

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Xu Gu - ''Walking on Snow in Search of Plum Blossoms''
1820s births 1896 deaths Year of birth uncertain Painters from Anhui Qing dynasty painters People from She County, Anhui Qing dynasty Buddhists Qing dynasty poets Poets from Anhui 19th-century Chinese poets 19th-century Chinese painters Buddhist artists 19th-century Chinese writers {{China-painter-stub