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Guan Yunshi
Uyghur sanqu writer who left the Hanlin Academy to sell medicine at Qiantang
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 Xiaoyunshi Haiya · Luhua Daoren · Suanzhai · Guan Suanzhai
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Guan Yunshi, originally named Xiaoyunshi Haiya, with the sobriquets Suanzhai and Luhua Daoren, was a Uyghur whose family came from Beiting and a grandson of the early Yuan general Ali Haiya. Born in 1286, he was a writer of Yuan sanqu songs. He gave his inherited rank to his younger brother, was made reader-in-waiting academician of the Hanlin Academy in 1313, soon resigned on grounds of illness and lived at Qiantang selling medicine. With Xu Zaisi, called Tianzhai, he is known by the paired name of sour and sweet songs. He died in 1324, aged thirty-nine by Chinese count.
Life and times
Dates 1286 - 1324