Plum Blossom(墨梅)

It is a painting of a plum drawn by Sochi, Huh Ryeon(小癡 許鍊, 1809-1892). He learned painting from Kim Jeong-hee. He especially painted the plum painting well. Plum is the representative flower of spring, and it symbolizes incision because it blooms in the cold of early spring. Impo(林逋) planted plum around the West Lake(西湖), and the story of growing red-crowned crane remains in the painting. 孤山處士舊時家, 門巷深深一逕斜