 He made these prints typically on commission, and they bore the name of the patron rather than the artist on first printings; later printings for the public removed the patron's name or replaced it with the artist's.The "Eight Views of Xiaoxiang" is a Chinese series of eight "shan shui" "mountain-water" paintings of views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers in China.The scholar-painter Song Di produced the first rendition in the 1060s with a series of landscape handscrolls, to which he later attached a one-line poem to each.