Li Bai's Hard Road Journey

A traditional Chinese ink wash hanging-scroll style painting on warm off-white rice paper, vertically composed with large black brush-calligraphy occupying the upper and right-central area and a poetic landscape illustration in the lower left and bottom. The calligraphy must be crisp, fully legible, and written in expressive semi-cursive brush script, arranged in 6 vertical columns read right to left. The exact text of the 6 columns is: "Golden goblets of fine wine cost ten thousand coins, jade plates of rare delicacies worth ten thousand coins," "Setting down cups and chopsticks, unable to eat, drawing my sword and looking around, my heart lost in confusion," "Wishing to cross the Yellow River, the ice blocks the stream; I will climb the Taihang Mountains, snow covers the mountains." "Leisurely, I fish on the clear creek, suddenly I sail a boat and dream of the sun's edge." "The road ahead is hard, the road is hard, with many forks. Where are we now?", "There will be times when the long wind breaks the waves, and I will hoist my cloud-like sails to cross the vast sea." Add a smaller vertical signature inscription to the left of the main poem reading "李白行路難", plus 1 small red square seal beneath the inscription. In the painted scene, show 1 ancient Chinese scholar-poet in flowing pale robes with a dark topknot and trailing ribbons, standing on the edge of a rugged cliff at lower left, gazing upward and outward in contemplation. Below and across the lower half, depict a turbulent river or sea with whitecaps and foam, misty ink-wash mountains receding in the distance, sparse grasses and dark brush vegetation near the cliff edge, and soft atmospheric fog. Use monochrome black and gray ink with very restrained muted blue-gray washes in the water and robe shadows. The mood is heroic, melancholic, and literary, evoking classical Chinese shanshui painting and museum-quality calligraphy, with empty negative space preserved around the text and landscape.