In  this piece entitled Transcendence, Xu Zhongou uses the image of an unfolded      walnut to construct a poetic landscape of spirit and life traveling through  the mountains and rivers. In the center of the painting are layers upon  layers of mountainlike  lines, just like the obstacles and tests of a hard life, dividing the  seemingly calm “plains” on either side of the painting. But it is precisely  the existence of these mountains that cause the life trajectories on the east  and west sides to ultimately converge, turn toward each other and course  toward an encounter.