Zhou Mi, a friend of Zhao Mengfu, could not return to his hometown as a result of ruling conflicts, so Zhao Mengfu created Autumn Colors at the Qiao and Hua Mountains for him to remind him of his hometown. He also created The Mind Landscape of Xie Youyu to portray the separation of the contamination of official duties and purity of the mind by expressing the metal image of Xie Youyu. One of his landscapes, The Water Village, exhibited characteristics that many Yuan Dynasty masters to come would try to replicate such as united grounds and simple brush strokes.
This hand scroll was painted in ink. The subject is characteristics of painting from China.
