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The artist Zhang Daqian inscribes: ‘At Leidongping [of Mount E’mei in Sichuan province], there are cliffs of over ten miles high from which people dare not look down. It is said that the Leifu Cave would shake when people speak, so in the old days there was a metal tablet requiring silence.’
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 165 on p. 189, illus. p. 189 fig. 165
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