The Picture about Riding Donkey is on silk scroll, painted in light colors. The drawing is a description of exotic hills and woods. The painting is an image of rivers floating through the mountains and the wind blowing through the trees. One person rides a donkey on the way to the grass hills deep in the mountains. In the near place, there is a woodcutter beginning to cross the bridge. The image of the hills and stones the hills and stones seem very wet. The painter wrote a poem on it, "searching but get nothing, so collect the books and come back. I am still riding a donkey to the green hill; all the body is full of dust. My wife faces the mountains and the cow has its cloth." This picture shows Tang Yin's characteristics in painting.
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Tang Yin(1470-1523), an artist of the Ming Dynasty. He lived in Wu county of Suzhou. He was extremely talented in the arts and could write poems and paint paintings skillfully. In later years, he believed in Buddhism and downhearted day after day.
