# Bamboo in the Wind, in Chinese Painting

Puming (Xuechuang) painted this in the 1300s. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> Bamboo is an evergreen plant that does not break under the weight of snow or the force of the wind, and thus became a favorite motif in literati painting and Chan Buddhism as a metaphor for the virtue of not yielding to worldly temptations.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1300s
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk
- Dimensions: Painting: 77.6 x 45.7 cm (30 9/16 x 18 in.); Overall with knobs: 209.5 x 75.5 cm (82 1/2 x 29 3/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1953.246
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Puming (Xuechuang)](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/puming-xuechuang), Chinese, active before 1274–after 1329

1 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Puming (Xuechuang)'s contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-puming-xuechuang?hang=750) (8 works)
- [More paintings of the 13th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/painting-13?hang=750) (15 works)
- [13th-century China](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/13-china?hang=750) (6 works)

## Get it

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