Dreaming of Tiger Spring at Hupao Valley
Legendary tiger-dug mountain spring where a celebrated artist renounced fame to become a monk.
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This guide to Dreaming of Tiger Spring at Hupao Valley in Hangzhou follows Li Shutong, China's first professional oil painter and a celebrated multi-talent, on the August 1918 morning he began cutting off his own hair beside this spring. You'll trace his sudden turn from fame, sheet music, and stage roles in Tokyo to a monk's plain diet and bare wooden bed, taking new names at Hupao's own temple. The guide lingers on the legend that gave the spring its name, of two tigers said to have dug it from the hillside in a dream.
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