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Yuan Zhongdao
Gong'an School Prose Master Renowned for Travelogues and Personal Diaries
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 Xiaoxiu · Xiaoxiu · Master Xiaoxiu · Gong'an San Yuan Zhi Yi
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Youngest of the Three Yuan Brothers of Gong'an, celebrated for travel sketches and intimate diary literature in Kexuezhai Ji.
Life and times
- 1570Born
Ming - 1626Died
Works
Literature · Prose1- Record of a Journey to TaoyuanMingYuan Zhongdao's 1609 account of a boat trip up the Yuan River to the Peach Blossom Spring
Family tree
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Yuan Zhongdao
