The “Ch'iu-shêng-fu-i-tu 秋声賊意図 (Picture Embodying the Ode to an Autumnal Voice)” by Hua-Yen 華嵒, is his grand work which takes its subject from the “Ch'iu-shêng-fu” by Ou-yang Hsiu 欧陽修. This ode delivers the philosophical notions on autumn he entertained when he, as he read on an autumn night, heard the blowing of wind and the sound of scattering leaves, and this painting represents a scene when Ou-yang Hsiu, hearing the voice of the wind, ordered an attendant boy to see what was going on. The effect of the pale black ink and faint colours, to gether with a centrifugal composition, is to render the chilly night air and tranquil atmosphere of autumn. From the artist's inscription the work is known to have been painted at the age of seventy-four in the tenth month, the winter, 1775. However, on the other hand, in his anthology, Li-kou-chi 離垢集, there is a separate poem with an introduction stating that it was written on his sixtieth birthday, on the seventh day of the tenth month, 1743. If this is right, we cannot but think that he was born in 1683. As the “ Picture Embodying the Ode to an Autumnal Voice” was painted toward the end of the year, he may have indicated his age as the next year as old people often do. Though there is a theory which include him among the so-called “eight eccentrics of Yang chou,” he who from his young day traind him self in painting technique to build up his own style is a painter of quite a different quality from the “eight eccentrics of Yang-chou,” who began to paint in or after their middle age and whose repartory is limited to certain subject.