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Liu Dakui
Core Master of the Tongcheng School and Theorist of Rhythm and Spirit
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 Liu Caifu · Caifu · Haifeng · Master Haifeng · Liu Haifeng · Tongcheng San Zu Zhi Yi
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Leading Tongcheng prose stylist who expanded literary aesthetics by emphasizing rhythm, phonetic cadence, and dynamic spirit in Lunwen Ouji.
Life and times
- 1698Born
Qing - 1779Died
Works
Literature · Prose6- A Brief Account of Lady ZhangQingLiu Dakui remembers the concubine who stayed on to raise his father and waited up for the boys
- The Shrine of Dou ChengQingLiu Dakui on a soldier who died to save Tongcheng, and a dynasty that scorned its people
- On a Painting of an Outing to LingyunQingLiu Dakui on a painting of a friend's outing to Lingyun, the trip Su Shi only dreamed of
- Offering to Shi BingzhongQingLiu Dakui mourns the friend in the capital whose company alone eased his quarrel with the world
- Offering to Lord Wu WensuQingLiu Dakui mourns an elder statesman who poured his wine and laid out his bedding by hand
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- Offering to My Maternal UncleQingLiu Dakui mourns the heirless uncle who believed he would bring glory to the Liu family