In the Ci-poetry world of the early period of Southern Song Dynasty SU Shi's Ci-poetry was turgidly defined, devoutly imitated and widely followed as an orthodox model and as a sutra of that time.
This unweeting manner of performance is the true ring by which, in this refurbishing age, a fossilized survival may be known from a spurious reproduction.
Like in form, it had the added softness and finish of a Raffaelle after Perugino, which, while faithfully reproducing the original subject, entirely distances the original art.