Gong Linchun: ''Listening to the Sound of the Zither'', c. 1980, ink and colours on textile (probably silk), a scholar with raised head playing the zither (chin. qin). qin), the gesture reveals the playing of music, while the instrument is shown frontally embedded in the background, the head nimbus (chin. guangtou) decorated with lion heads probably symbolically reveals the inner world of the player, colour field painting with borrowings from the style of the Shanghai school of the 19th century, 72x51cm(picture field), 103x73cm(frame)