WB140 Xu Beihong: Cock Crowing in Wind and Rain  

• Cock Crowing in Wind and Rain
• Xu Beihong: 1895-1953
• 74x130 cm
• This painting, painted in the spring of 1937, is one of the most famous works by Xu Beihong. Two lines from an ancient poem, "Wind and rain darken the sky, the cock crows unceasingly" are incorporated in the painting, suggesting the persistence and courage of the Chinese people in a time of domestic trouble and foreign invasion.