Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: Poems 7-12

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This week, we're reading poems 7-12 in this collection. Because of the nature of the book in question, I'll ask you to refer here for Chinese and English copies of the poems and the images together.

You can view the scroll as a whole more easily and read some background on the Met's website; the Wiki page will also help orient you. In case it's useful, here is a plain-text version of the scroll. 

This is the second of three weeks we'll be spending on this collection. I'll link us to some additional background information in the coming weeks, once we've had a chance to orient ourselves; this is the first time the piece we're looking at has come with its own explanatory material, and that's a sound starting-point. 

This Harvard project on the scroll looks interesting, but I can't access it in Chrome or Safari; it might just be dead.

The Met provides us with some short, online-accessible monographs which offer may context for the pictorial aspect of the scroll: 

Sung and Yuan Paintings

Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632–1717)

Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Eighth–Fourteenth Century

Along the Border of Heaven: Sung and Yüan Paintings from the C. C. Wang Collection