abstract:A hanging scroll (; also called 軸 or 掛軸) is one of the many traditional ways to display and exhibit Chinese painting and calligraphy. Displaying the art in such way was befitting for public appreciation and appraisal of the aesthetics of the scrolls in its entirety by the audience.
Elsewhere, mountains shoot straight up an 11-foot-tall hangingscroll by Mi Wanzhong (1570-1628) while, in the late-16th to early-17th century fan hanging beside it, Sun Zhi's mountains arc and lunge like waves.