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Tan Yuanchun
Leading figure of the Jingling school who compiled the Shigui with Zhong Xing
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 Tan Youxia · Youxia · Jingling Pai Chuangshiren Zhi Yi
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Tan Yuanchun, courtesy name Youxia, from Jingling in Huguang, was born in 1586, a late Ming writer and a leading figure of the Jingling school. With his townsman Zhong Xing he promoted a deep, secluded and austere style of poetry and compiled the Shigui, made up of the Gushi gui and the Tangshi gui; the pair were known as Zhong and Tan. In 1627 he came first in the Huguang provincial examination. His works are collected in the Yuegui tang ji. He died at an inn in 1637 on his way to the metropolitan examination.
Life and times
Dates 1586 - 1637