 The manuscript was originally collected by New York art collector John M. Crawford Jr. (1909-1988), and currently collected by the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.The words of the handscroll are taken from Chapter 81 of "Records of the Grand Historian", written about a thousand years earlier, which describes the conflict between the Zhao historical figures Lian Po and Lin Xiangru.The text is edited to end at a key point, closing with Lin's words,“[When] two tigers fight, one must perish.