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Li Dongyang
Ming Grand Secretary, Literary Leader, and Founder of the Chaling Poetry School
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 Li Binzhi · Binzhi · Xiya · Master Xiya · Li Xiya · Wenzheng Gong
Grand Secretary and dominant arbiter of Ming literary taste for thirty years. Founded the Chaling Poetry School, advocating classical Tang metric discipline.
Life and times
Dates 1447 - 1516
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