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Fang Bao
Founding Patriarch of the Tongcheng Classical Prose School and Formulator of 'Yifa'
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 Fang Linggao · Linggao · Wangxi · Master Wangxi · Fang Wangxi · Tongcheng Pai Shizu
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Founder of the influential Tongcheng School of classical Chinese prose who established the doctrine of 'Yifa' (moral substance and orderly structure).
Life and times
Dates 1668 - 1749
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