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This hanging scroll, Autumn Delight ( Qiuqu Tu ) , was painted by Zhang Daqian in 1935, on the fifth day after the Mid-Autumn Festival of the yihai year. The work belongs to a critical period of artistic maturity in Zhang’s career. At this stage, he was deeply engaged in the study and copying of earlier masterworks while at the same time developing the highly personal brush idiom that would define his mature style and secure his growing reputation across the Chinese art worl