"Cold Pine in a Secluded River" is a painting on paper and ink created by Ni Zan, a painter in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. It is now in the Taipei Palace Museum。

Distant forest, cold spring stream。On the picture, the flat hillside with stones lying in it, the stream gurgling in the slope stone, seems to be a quiet, without its flowers, birds and people。There were no trees in the distant mountains, a large expanse of empty land, and no vegetation on the slopes. Only a few pine trees looked like depressed trees, with slightly inclined branches and sparse pine leaves, presenting a scene of severe winter。

Top left Ni's self-title :" Autumn summer sickness drinking, complaining husband road, rustling Youjian pine, Qingyin full court。Cold spring slide cliff stone, white gathering in the morning and evening, white zai such as gold jade, Zhou Zi boundless beauty。The scenery to eliminate shaking, do not laugh to think and see。Son learn relatives and friends, autumn summer speech, will be in the matter after, because of writing Youjian cold pine and five words to give, also if the meaning of the cloud ear。July 18, Ni Zan。"

Ni Zan (1301-1374) was a painter and poet in the Yuan Dynasty。People from Wuxi (now part of Jiangsu Province)。Living in Wuxi Jitori, many trees, built the name of the cloud forest, because of the cloud forest since the name。Ni Zan, who is good at landscape, bamboo stone, dead wood and so on, is a representative painter of the landscape painting of the southern Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, whose works are mainly ink on paper。The landscape style of Dong Yuan, Jing Hao, Guan Tong, Li Cheng, to develop, the painting is sparse and simple, the style is naive and quiet。Ni Zan work calligraphy, good regular script, ancient light elegant, Wei Jin style。

Ni Zan life is not official, Qinggao festival, known as "Gao Shi", he said in "Shuhuai poetry", "white eyes to vulgar things, Qing Qu Shi Ying。Rich black foot path, thinking down this name。"Ni Zan's life not only did not ask about the world, but also resolutely opposed to his friends' entry into the world as an official, so this painting poem advised his friend Zhou Xun to learn to" strike "the road," rest "and think, which contains a strong" recruit hidden meaning ".。"You River Cold Pine Picture" the whole painting mood is cold, detached from the dust, it seems to imply the sinister career and the self-satisfaction of retreat。

In this figure, the trees use a center pen to trace the scar joints for the thick ink point wake up。Pine and cypress branches and pine leaves, the brushwork is simple and light。Use pen thirsty and moist, light and clear, fold belt cun simple rate of loose park, very with the meaning of。

From the "You stream cold pine picture" can be seen, this painting uses the Pingyuan method to draw the valley of the stream, the rocks are gradually far away, two pine trees stand diagonally in the cold spring of the uninhabited stream bottom。

The picture of Cold Pines in You River is different from the conventional composition mode of "two sides of a river" in three stages, and has obvious aesthetic sense of modern form。Lower the middle scene, do not draw the long view, so that there is no obvious distinction between close and middle scenes。As can be seen from the painting, the three pine trees are in the focal position of the viewing Angle. 敧 stands diagonally on the slope rock with sparse pine branches and prominent main body images。From the perspective of the layout of the picture, the three pine trees lean to the left, and the dead tree on the right stands upright, which 敧 has produced stability。Cold pine, distant glaze, blank, picture poem together form an organic whole。