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Yuan Zongdao
Elder brother of Yuan Hongdao, first in the 1586 metropolitan examination and a leader of the Gong'an school
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 Boxiu · Boxiu · Baisuzhai Zhuren · Gong'an San Yuan Zhi Yi
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Yuan Zongdao, courtesy name Boxiu, from Gong'an, elder brother of Yuan Hongdao and Yuan Zhongdao, was born in 1560, a Ming writer and a leader of the Gong'an school. In 1586 he came first in the metropolitan examination and first in the second class of the palace examination, then rose from Hanlin bachelor and compiler to Right Mentor of the heir apparent and Hanlin reader. Admiring Bai Juyi and Su Shi, he named his studio after them, held that writing need only convey its meaning and opposed imitating the ancients. His works are the Baisuzhai leiji. He died in 1600.
Life and times
Dates 1560 - 1600