An-hui

The famine in the northern part of the Province of An-hui becomes daily more serious and the funds so far sent by the Red Cross Society are altogether inadequate.

The wide boundary impress traversing northern An-hui, although not currently used as a provincial demarcation, follows the low hills named the Huai-yang Shan separating Huai and Yellow River drainage from that of the Yangtze.

When he arrived in An-hui, near the city of Xuan-cheng, he decided out of desperation to seek shelter in a monastery on Mount Huang.

From the age of thirteen, Huang Pin-hung was able to study paintings in private collections that were being dispersed in the area around his ancestral home in She-hsien, An-hui Province, in the wake of the T’ai-p’ing Rebellion; he was particularly impressed by the works of Tung Ch’i-ch’ang (1555-1636) and Cha Shih-piao (1615-98).