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Zhong Xing
Leader of the Jingling school who compiled the Shigui with Tan Yuanchun
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 Zhong Bojing · Bojing · Tuigu · Jingling Pai Chuangshiren Zhi Yi
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- Writer / Poet
Zhong Xing, courtesy name Bojing and sobriquet Tuigu, from Jingling in Huguang, was born in 1574, a Ming writer and a leader of the Jingling school, paired with Tan Yuanchun as Zhong and Tan. A jinshi of 1610, he served as messenger, secretary of Works and director of Rites at Nanjing, rose to education intendant of Fujian and went home on his father's death. The History of Ming calls his style, a reaction against the Gong'an school, deep, solitary and steep. With Tan Yuanchun he compiled the widely read Shigui, and he wrote the Yinxiuxuan ji. He died in 1625.
Life and times
Dates 1574 - 1625