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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
Dates 1570 - 1626
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