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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
- 1668Born
Qing - 1749Died
Works
Literature · Prose10- Anecdotes of Duke Zuo ZhongyiQingFang Bao's Qing sketch of Zuo Guangdou, who discovered Shi Kefa and rebuked him from prison
- Notes from PrisonQingFang Bao's record of his jailing in the Nanshan Ji case, exposing extortion and death in prison
- Written after the Poems on Madam Wei, a Filial Daughter-in-LawQingFang Bao on a wife who cut her arm to heal her mother-in-law, and why such excesses arose
- Preface Seeing Off Liu HansanQingFang Bao exposes the false middle way of his age and urges a man who quit office to hold firm
- Preface Seeing Off Zuo Weisheng on His Return SouthQingAfter months with an old friend beyond the frontier, Fang Bao sees him off and muses on lasting
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- Preface Seeing Off Li YucangQingFang Bao asks an admiring prefect to name his faults, and to set writing aside for government
- Biography of Master White CloudQingFang Bao's life of Zhang Yi, a Ming loyalist hermit, and of the fate of his unpublished books
- Biography of Two Chaste WomenQingFang Bao tells of two women who kept faith in hard straits and shames men who excuse themselves
- Lament for Xuan ZuorenQingFang Bao mourns a friend who visited him in prison, vowed to wait at Longshan, and died first
- Lament for Wu's Youngest SonQingFang Bao mourns a friend's last son, dead in the capital at twenty-one, leaving a son of two