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Yuan Hongdao
Leader of the Gong'an School and Master of Late Ming Expressive Prose
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 Yuan Zhonglang · Zhonglang · Shigong · Gong'an San Yuan Zhi Yi
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Preeminent Late Ming essayist and founder of the Gong'an School of literature advocating spontaneous individual expression ('Xingling') against archaic imitation.
Life and times
Dates 1568 - 1610
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