This handscroll was done in 1548. At around that time, a collector in Soochow had Chao Po-su's “Latter Ode on the Red Cliff” in his possession. When an official wanted to present it to the son of the Grand Secretary Yen Sung (1480-1565), the owner refused. Wen Cheng-ming thereupon urged the owner not to anger such a prominent person, and so painted this copy for him as a substitute. The inscription says it is a copy after Chao Po-su (1124-1182), but the light blue-and-green coloring reveals the literati landscape tradition after the Yuan artist Chao Meng-fu (1254-1322). The landscape elements also do not appear as geometric shapes and patterns. In particular, the branches of the pines and cedars are done with dense brushwork that is completely in Wen Cheng-ming's own style.