Yan'an 延安,

1957

In the left foreground corner is are mountain slopes behind which a multi-arched stone bride crosses a river to a low area leading up to a peak topped by a pagoda in the middle ground. Travelers with carts are seen on the bridge and on the road that winds up the terraced foot of the mountain. In the far ground are more mountains; rendered with lighter tones. At the bottom of some of the mountain cliffs houses and cave entrances can be seen. In the left bottom corner is the artist's inscription reading: "Yan'an. 1957 painted by Tao Yiqing" 延安一九五七年陶一清寫; and one artist's seal "Yiqing" 一清 (square, intaglio). The present-day octagonal nine-story pagoda (44 m. high) from the Ming period stands on a hill known as Baotashan 宝塔山or Jialingshan 嘉岭山. East of Yan'an city, the pagoda hill stands by the Yanhe River with the Qingliangshan Mountains to the northeast.