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Huang Jingren
Brilliant and Melancholic Lyric Poet of the High Qing Era
Mural guide
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Also known as Huang Zhongze · Zhongze · Lianghan Quewen Zuozhe · Qingdai Li Shangyin
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Celebrated Qing Dynasty lyric poet whose poignant, emotive verses in Liangdangxuan Ji articulated the tribulations and existential longing of classical scholars.
Life and times
- 1749Born
Qing - 1783Died
Works
Literature · Poetry1- Random ReflectionsQingHuang Jingren's regulated verse of a poor scholar's bitter self-mockery and pride in his poems
- Literature · Sayings1
- Of a Hundred Uses, a Scholar Has None: Huang Jingren's Bitter JestQingIdiom from Huang Jingren's poem Random Feelings: the scholar's bitter self-mockery